I need a sure fire recipe for a homemade maple table syrup. we don't tap our own trees yet and real maple syrup is beyond our finances most of the time so a home made Aunt Jemima type would really be super. I have searched but can't seem to find one. Maple flavored (via extract ) would be a plus. Thanks in advance!!

-- Alison in Nova Scotia (aproteau@istar.ca), January 25, 2001

Answers

Alison: I have a recipe, and will find it and post it shortly. It is really simple, as I remember, just brown sugar and water and maple flavoring. Jan

-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), January 25, 2001.

Get some Mapleine(crescent brand) at the grocery store, it makes a lot of syrup and you only have to have sugar. The recipe is on the box. It is in the spice section down with the vanilla extract. You can also use the recipe on the box with corn syrup added for a thicker syrup. Great when you heat it up and use it on pancakes, waffles, french toast, oatmeal, snow icecream, fritters, etc...Yum! Just got the box out and it says that it makes 24 pints of syrup. Wooooo! Uh Oh, I'm hungry again!

-- Nan (davidl41@ipa.net), January 25, 2001.

I make homemade maple flavored syrup. I believe I got the recipe out of one of the Tightwad Gazette books. Yup, here it is:

3 cups granulated syrup 1 1/2 cups water 3 Tbsp molasses 1 tsp vanilla 2 tsp butter flavoring (this is optional; I've made it both ways) 1 tsp maple extract or flavoring (I usually add 2 tsp)

Bring all to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves (a good rolling boil) Turn off the burner but leave the pot on the burner until the bubbling stops. Let cool and pour in a container.

This is the only syrup that my youngest will eat. I'm almost out and she's been wanting me to make more. I guess I better get at it.

Stacy Rohan--it's still snowing in Windsor, NY

-- Stacy Rohan (KincoraFarm@aol.com), January 25, 2001.

if it is for a small amount 1 or 2 gallons of syrup doit on your wood stove use the largest pot (4-5 gallon) you have just boil it keep on adding sap to it ratio is from 20 to 40 to 1 depending on season and year when you like the tast and thickness CAN IT HOT make sure your jars are clean and sterile and ready (use small jars for this amount) only tap 5-6 15inch and up trees

-- nick malek (raymondetdesroier@smpatico.ca), January 25, 2001.

I learned from my Grandma....half brown sugar half white sugar....that much water....such as 1c.white sugar...1c. brown sugar...2c. water... Then add about a third of a bottle of mapleine. When I was a kid we had a small box of maple tablets that we used. They were a lot better than what you buy now. You can subtitute vanilla or almond for a different flavor.

-- Lynette (fear_the_bear@webtv.net), January 25, 2001.

Did you know that Aunt Jemima's syrup DOESN'T have maple syrup in it? I just read it in "Top Secret Recipes" by Todd Wilbur.

-- Sandy Davis (smd2@netzero.net), January 25, 2001.

The one I have is the same as Stacy's. There are a lot of good ideas in those Tightwad Gazette's, if you haven't read them, get them from the library and check them out! Jan

-- Jan in Colorado (Janice12@aol.com), January 25, 2001.

2 cups water, 2 cups white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar. Cook until sugar is dissolved. Add Mapleine to taste. I use about 1 tsp. Makes 1 qt.

-- Barbara Fischer (bfischer42@hotmail.com), January 25, 2001.

P.S. I make this in the microwave.

-- Barbara Fischer (bfischer42@hotmail.com), January 25, 2001.

My son and I are allergic to real Maple syrup (tried all kinds, even from health food store) and all the stuff on the store shelves have garbage in them so I just put some maple extract into corn syrup. Tastes great.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), January 25, 2001.

Isn't it funny you mention Tightwad Gazette. I have had volume 2 for years and just borrowed The Complete.. yesterday from the library. I will look in there . I have never seen Mapleine here in NS..possibly not available..and the cost of corn syrup is high in comparison to sugar and water. Thanks for all your help, folks!! I really appreciate the response!

-- Alison in Nova Scotia (aproteau@istar.ca), January 26, 2001.

Ok..checked the book..what is "butter flavoring" and where do I find it? In with the spices etc? Is it liquid or powder?

-- Alison in Nova Scotia (aproteau@istar.ca), January 26, 2001.

ok,, where can I find MAPLEINE? I check the store, never heard of it,, but I am in maply syrup country. Anyone have an address?

-- Stan (sopal@net-port.com), January 26, 2001.

Mapleine is just a name brand of flavoring. You will probably have something similar if you look by the flavorings in the spice section. It is in a little blue box. A little goes a long way! You could probably find it in a large grocery store, however our small one carries it. Might be down there with the food colorings? Vanilla? Butter flavoring is the yellow stuff that is right beside the Mapleine in our store;). Any flavoring brand would work and just use one of the recipes above. Brown sugar sounds like an improvement, don't know why I never thought of that?! YUM! Here we go again....I'm getting hungry.....there goes my diet...!

-- Nan (davidl41@ipa.net), January 26, 2001.

OK, this might be a bit off topic, but it makes me laugh. I knew that the store maple syrup wasn't maple syrup but I figured that real maple syrup would be Butterworth's but better. I bought a gallon of real maple syrup from the coop last sring. Well I tried some and never touched it again. I gave it away! No one here would eat it!

It doesn't taste at all like what I was used to. I'm going to try a few of these recipes for table syrup. I just can't figure out how they can call it maple syrup in the store cause it sure doesn't taste the same to me! I guess I have been conditioned.

-- Denise (jphammock@msn.com), January 26, 2001.

There is maple syrup and then there is maple syrup..... I buy mine directly from the Hamish in Ontario and it has a completely different flavor than any store brand. For cakes, cookies, or pies that call for maple syrup I mix up a batch of the homemade stuff: 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup water 1/2 tsp. maple flavoring Bring the brown sugar and water to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the flavoring. Store in the refrigerator.

-- Lynn Hamilton (norstar@connect.ab.ca), January 28, 2001.

I thought I was giving everyone a treat buying REAL maple syrup but the kids would not eat it .Ow well more for me .I'll have to try to make some .

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), January 28, 2001.

Hi Alison,

I got this recipe back in July of 1999 off of a forum. (I don't remember which one) I have not tried this, but you might want to give it a try.

wash good and boil 6 medium potatoes unpeeled (use ones with good hides, like Idaho)

Boil in 2 cups of water until only one cup of water remains.

Remove potatoes

Bring liquid to a boil

Add 1 cup of white sugar and 1 cup brown sugar

Dissolve and then cook for about 1 minute.

Pour into bottle and place in a dark place for a week before using.

If the syrup gets sugary, just heat up again.

Beth(NC)

-- Beth(NC) (craig@icu2.net), January 28, 2001.

I have not been able to find Mapleine anywhere in any of the stors. I understand it is no longer being made by Crescent. If anyone knows anything different, or where it can be gotten from, please let me know. Thanks a bunch!

-- Jan in Virginia (jc.benson@prodigy.net), March 07, 2002.

I bought mine along time ago, but here is the address off the bottle,

Crescent brand Mapleine Distributed by Hand-Dee Pak, Inc. Hunt Vally, MD 21031

I'll check the stores here to see if it still around.

-- Thumper/inOKC (slrldr@yahoo.com), March 07, 2002.