A DOLLAR an ounce?

[Old Michael]

...I make French Toast and it sings with the good syrup. Syrup does make a good meat glaze and it works well in many deserts. A few toasted almonds and a little syrup makes things like Buttercup squash really good. It goes well in non-traditional baked beans. I make bread fairly often and will make some breads with dried fruit pieces and syrup finds its way into the bread. Game birds get apple/maple stuffing. I use syrup with some salmon, roast turkey and spicy sausages dishes....

ionbeam, I wanna live at your house.

Thanks, all, for the replies.

Feel like a knob. I didn't know that the sap wasn't actually syrup. I thought you just tapped the tree, and syrup came out. This is more embarrassing than that time I accidentally cross-dressed and .....

 

[user 6393]

So.....OLD Mikey

When is the thread on embroidery starting? I want to mark the date/time on my calendar, soz I don't miss it!

 

[SnowAviation]

I hate you people.

Now, I 'm hungry and I have this odd urge to sew...

 

[frito1]

A dollar an ounce? I wish.

Never tried it on pancakes though.

That's what I was thinking. Good burbon (Woodford Reserve) ain't cheap.

 

[Bungie]

When is the thread on embroidery starting?

I didn't think guys were allowed into the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society?

 

[Bustanut joker]

ionbeam, I wanna live at your house.

Thanks, all, for the replies.

Feel like a knob. I didn't know that the sap wasn't actually syrup. I thought you just tapped the tree, and syrup came out. This is more embarrassing than that time I accidentally cross-dressed and .....

First... You are a knob... Second, I don't think Alan has done anything so terrible as to deserve such a cruel punishmnet..

And........

Accidentally? :lol2: Highly fookin' unlikely!! :acute: Yer killin' me here Cindy..

 

[Fred W]

This thread is both enlightening and entertaining.

I never imagined that so many people wouldn't already know everything there is to know about maple syrup. :blink:

So, here's another very fine use of (real) maple syrup:

My Norwegian grandmother Olga Lindgren's recipe for New England style Manhattans

(which is probably payback for Manhattan style Clam Chowder) :glare:

3-4 parts bourbon whiskey

1 part sweet (aka red) vermouth

dollop of pure maple syrup

dash of angostura bitters

ice

Best if made by the pitcher, stirred and then strained and poured off the ice, though lately I'm partial to drinking them "on the rocks".

When I was a yoot in the Navy, a fellow New Englander compatriot and I made "Vermont Old Fashioneds" to cure the home sickness, which is just Bourbon and maple syrup on ice. Still a nice tipple on occasion.

 

[beemerdons]

Almost $20 for a decent bottle?

A litre bottle of the real stuff is that price up here too. Amazing when you think about it really. $20 for tree sap. But when you have pancakes, french toast or some kinky yummy, nothing else will do.

My Dear Fellow Forumites: Does it bother you fine FJR folks as much as it does Papa Chuy, to hear Bungie discussing "kinky yummies"? Maybe it is because I've met Steve in person!

 

[beemerdons]

I always have a good supply of Grade A maple slurple from a good friend who makes it.

Come and get it, baby

ps- I always pay extra for the real stuff in a restaurant; and if there's a chance there is no real stuff, I take my own with me. Like to church dinners on Shrove Tuesday

Come and get it, baby? This sentence alone makes it worthwhile for Papa Chuy to return from scenic Mexico to our Forum! HUBBA, HUBBA, HUBBA, HUBBA, HUBBA!

 

[user 6393]

Almost $20 for a decent bottle?

A litre bottle of the real stuff is that price up here too. Amazing when you think about it really. $20 for tree sap. But when you have pancakes, french toast or some kinky yummy, nothing else will do.

My Dear Fellow Forumites: Does it bother you fine FJR folks as much as it does Papa Chuy, to hear Bungie discussing "kinky yummies"? Maybe it is because I've met Steve in person!

Somehow I am thinking Steve's idea of what is "kinky" and mine are different..........it's all perspective LOL

 

[Bungie]

Somehow I am thinking Steve's idea of what is "kinky" and mine are different..........it's all perspective LOL

In honour of this thread, I'm having my favourite breakfast right now.

I think you might be right Barb, kinky is a relative thing. In fact, I was talking to Tom about it. He asked me what I thought kinky was. I said, using some feathers.

He just gave me a dead stare and said "I use the whole chicken."

It's always the quite ones. As you know :yahoo:

 

[Old Michael]

...My Norwegian grandmother Olga Lindgren's recipe for New England style Manhattans

(which is probably payback for Manhattan style Clam Chowder) :glare:

3-4 parts bourbon whiskey

1 part sweet (aka red) vermouth

dollop of pure maple syrup

dash of angostura bitters

ice

Best if made by the pitcher,...

...Unless friends come over and you need more.

Fred, I know very little about hangovers, but I understand that it's the amount of sugar in your drinks that determines the amount of pain suffered the next morning.

And yes, I thought "moderation" was what Ignacio and Skooter did.

Almost $20 for a decent bottle?

A litre bottle of the real stuff is that price up here too. Amazing when you think about it really. $20 for tree sap. But when you have pancakes, french toast or some kinky yummy, nothing else will do.

My Dear Fellow Forumites: Does it bother you fine FJR folks as much as it does Papa Chuy, to hear Bungie discussing "kinky yummies"? Maybe it is because I've met Steve in person!

Somehow I am thinking Steve's idea of what is "kinky" and mine are different..........it's all perspective LOL

Well, I'm guessing they both make use of syrup, and involve .....slurping.

Now, that's just a guess, mind you.

 

[user 6393]

Syrup? Yes

Slurping? No......LOL

 

[ScottyUSN]

Reviews show this to be a quality Grade B and the price is right. Spend $25 or more and shipping is free.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00271OPVU?t=slickdeals&ie=UTF8&tag=slickdeals&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00271OPVU

 

[Silver Penguin]

Wow - education and entertainment all in the same place. Thanks for starting this, OM. Now I want go go eat some pancakes with real fruit and real maple syrup.

 

[krashdragon]

Now she says that she wants to tap a couple of more trees next spring -- my tools are either going to be hidden or locked up h34r:

Just get your wife her own tools! You're actually lucky she went and did all the dripping and tapping herself...

And, Yeah, I loves maple surple! But it's not a local product here in Texas... :angry2:

Take care

mary

 

[Joe2Lmaker]

Fred, I know very little about hangovers, but I understand that it's the amount of sugar in your drinks that determines the attraction to men later that evening

They were in the Navy, right?

You're actually lucky she went and did all the dripping and tapping herself...

Yeah...

We wouldn't want to take that out of context...

 

[Fred W]

Joe... :rofl: That was great!

OM - What's a hang over?

Mary - You can tap all those local cactii though, right?

And instead of pancake syrup you end up with Tequila?

So who's making out on this deal?

 

[FJRBluesman]

Feel like a knob.....

How do you know? Have you felt yourself lately??

This is more embarrassing than that time I accidentally cross-dressed and .....

That was no accident... Just sayin'

 

[ionbeam]

Digging up this fossil of a thread because I have an update. Yesterday morning we went out to check our sugar maples to see if the sap is running yet. Tisn't. This morning our neighbor called and asked if we had looked out our living room window. Well, yes we had. She suggested we look again. @%^&*!!! Last night's ripping winds have taken out our sugar maple trees and left one dangling precariously over our neighbors tool shed and the back neighbor's dog pen. Won't be syrup even at a DOLLAR an ounce this year. Worse yet, I can't go out and take a ride to forget about it, I still have PMS :angry2: