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[SterlingAcres]

I don't have any preferences. I make our syrup myself. Not maple, but it tastes close.

 

[EweSheep]

I love maple syrup

Anyone tried drizzling maple syrup in the snow and have your own Maple candy????????????? Delicious!

 

[Catalina]

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I do that with chocolate! Russian lace - yum!

 

[debilorrah]

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I have done that with Karo syrup. YUM!

 

[asher]

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The kids did and loved it! Crazy stuff! hehe

 

[HorseFeathers]

Oh, I'm a Mainer and can't STAND fake syrup! I'm going to try "maple sugarin'" sometime.

 

[curliet]

I love the real stuff too, except that I'm always disappointed that it's kind of thin and doesn't stick to my pancakes like the fake stuff does.
And, I'm a bit surprised that none of our southern folks have mentioned sorghum syrup. I know that it's sometimes called molasses, but it isn't really from cane syrup lke molasses is.

 

[MissPrissy]

Molasses is made from sugar cane or sometimes sugar beets.

Sorghum is a different plant that people not from the south often call sorghum molasses though it is not derived from the sugar cane plant. Sorghum is a plant used for animal forage and silage and the natural sugars were harnessed for a sweetener.

I hate the taste of sorghum. It is one of those things you have to be born eating or acquire a taste for. To me it has an undertone of baking soda/powder that I can't get over.

 

[smom1976]

I would totally love to plant some maple syrup trees here in the south.. so I can tap them.. does anyone think that they would grow???

 

[Lunachick]

No, smom, they won't grow in the south. I beieve they need to go dormant and cold, that's maple syrup time!