We buy pure maple syrup to avoid the preservatives, high fructose corn syrup, and empty calories of imitation maple syrup. The healthier pure maple syrup is a source of calcium and other minerals: potassium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, and iron. There are also trace amounts of B2 (riboflavin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), PP (niacin), biotin, folic acid and amino acids. It is a bit expensive, and seems to go quickly around here. So I tried this recipe from Hillbilly Housewife for homemade pancake syrup, diluting a fourth of a bottle of pure maple syrup.
I'll use this syrup and let the children use the pure stuff. It's also a good back up for when we run out of real maple syrup. It tastes very good, and quite similar to commercial imitation syrup.
Actually, the molasses in this pancake recipe has many of the same nutritional properties as pure maple syrup. Although you only use two tablespoons of it, the molasses has high amounts of manganese, copper, iron, and calcium. Other minerals represented in molasses include potassium, magnesium, B-6, and selenium. I didn't try adding more to this recipe, but you might be able to get away with it. Molasses can taste bitter in larger ratios with sugar. I guess gingerbread cookies with all that molasses is good for you in the dead of winter!
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I had a feeling that real maple syrup is better for our health than the storebrand fake stuff. I will have to try to at least make the Hillbilly Housewife recipe. I wonder if maple flavoring is easy to find?
What a great idea! I just love HBHW's recipes and hadn't seen this one for maple syrup before. Way to stretch those dollars!
Jenn
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Thanks!
Elizabeth - I tasted the syrup before I added the maple syrup and it tasted fine(like McDonald's syrup). I think you can do without it if you can't find any.
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