Win Maple Syrup!

October 14, 2011 | 256 Comments

80% of the world’s maple syrup comes from Canada and 90% of that from Quebec, so who better to be giving away maple syrup to Sweet Beet readers than The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.

How to enter?  Leave a comment with either, “My favorite way to eat maple syrup is…” or  “My most memorable maple syrup moment was…”  Two people will win a gift pack with four sample bottles of different types of maple syrup.  (They sent me a pack and there seems to have been a strong correlation between the moment it entered my kitchen and my crepe consumption…).

My strongest memories of eating maple syrup, was not on pancakes but on snow. I grew up in Canada, with a four-year stop in Quebec. On warm spring weekends we would go cross country skiing, North of Montreal, through a snowy forest of maple trees.  This would be followed by a stop at the sugar shack, right in the middle of the forest, where we’d be handed a cafeteria-sized tray of snow over which syrup, resembling molten lava, retrieved from a giant vat of bubbling sap, had been drizzled.

Two of my sisters. Snow suits circa 1978.

With a pop-sickle stick we’d pull the hardened syrup off the snow, twirl it around our wooden utensil and eat it like taffy. This celebration of the one-month-long sap-tapping period, is known as “sugaring-off”.

The four gift bottles, from darkest to lightest.  You can tell which ones I’ve been guzzling.

As for whether, maple syrup is any better for you than other sugar, it’s sort of a yes and no answer, but there are some of you who were shocked when I wrote a post comparing sugars and did NOT include maple syrup! A massive oversight, especially for a Canadian. Here’s what I would have said  …

  • There are over 50 different antioxidants in maple syrup (similar to those in berries, green tea and flax seeds).
  • It contains several trace minerals including zinc, manganese and potassium
  • Compared to honey, maple syrup has significantly more calcium
  • Maple syrup is largely sucrose (similar to table sugar) so it will have a similar effect on blood sugar.
  • Many of the cheaper brands use corn syrup as the primary ingredient, along with flavoring and color. If it does not say, “maple syrup”, it’s maple-flavored sugar. (Legally, the product name can not contain the word “maple” at all, unless it is pure maple syrup.)
  • If you see Grade B on the bottle, it doesn’t mean it’s inferior, it means it was drawn from the tree near the end of the season when the sap is more concentrated, with darker color and deeper flavor. Grade B has a slightly higher mineral count than the lighter Grade A.
  • Within Grade A, there are lighter and darker varieties – the lighter ones are tapped earlier in the season and are milder in flavor.
  • It can easily substitute for honey or molasses in baking or as a substitute for simple syrup in cocktail mixing.

For more info on maple syrup, go to www.purecanadamaple.com

Support your Northern neighbor.  Eat pancakes. (Or wait for a snowy day and pour it on snow.)

Leave a comment to enter!

Drawing October 31.

Related Posts

How Bad Can It Be When It Tastes This Good? (A comparison of sugars)
Do The French Eat French toast? (An outstanding platform for maple syrup)
Buckwheat Crepes (Another excuse for syrup consumption)

 

 

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  • Jillian

    My favourite way to eat maple syrups is as a sweetener for homemade granola. The dark amber lends the most delicious flavour!

  • Kerry K

    As a lover of maple syrup, especially in the winter, I really want this giveaway! Thanks for hosting the contest.

  • Shadia Nassar

    I like to use maple syrup as a sweetener. I would love to do a side by side taste test of all four “colors!”

  • Ali Rudel

    I use maple syrup for everything- in my yogurt, on my breakfast, for candies… but my favorite way to eat maple syrup is in pie!

  • Moeby70

    My favorite way to eat Maple Syrup is directly out of the container….I like making Maple apple muffins…so yummy

  • Crystal Henson

    I’ve always wanted to make my own. Maybe someday. My favorite way to eat it is in crockpot beans with other ingredients.

  • Moeby70

    believe it or not there are more than 4 colors of Maple syrup…there are 4 “grades” but many colors within each grade

  • kristieinbc

    I make smoothies with frozen fruit, rice milk and yogurt. Maple syrup is always the sweetener I use. I also have porridge most mornings in the fall and winter, and maple syrup goes on that as well!

  • Arunima Ram

    Love eating it with yogurt

  • April

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is drizzled over slices of extra sharp cheddar cheese. It’s the most amazing snack in the world. My husband thought I was crazy the first time he saw me eat it, but I won him over as soon as he tried it.

  • sarah

    Love maple syrup. My fondest maple syrup memory is that it reminds me of home. My parents spent some time living in Canada and we always had a gallon jug of maple syrup in our fridge, mostly for use on pancakes (or bacon…)

  • Ann

    Growing up we always got Grade B maple syrup and it’s still my favorite. The first time I encountered the fake stuff at a friend’s house, I was horrified.

  • Bubbacusack

    I LOVE maple syrup. Being on a strict budget, I haven’t been able to buy any in a long time. :(

  • Bugalyn22

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on hot oats!

  • Anonymous

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is off my fingers, of course!

  • Laura

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is in pecan pie! My father is allergic to cane sugar, so my mom has developed a TON of dessert recipes that use either maple syrup or honey as a sweetener. As you say, maple pie is often the easier substitute. Her pecan pie recipe is a-maz-ing. It’s not cloyingly sweet like so many pecan pies, and with that subtle maple syrup flavor…mmmmm. People who claim not to like pecan pie have been converted by this one! So kudos to maple syrup for being the star of every Thanksgiving and Christmas :)

  • http://www.thesweetbeet.com Michelle Madden

    Here’s a trick for getting more mileage out of your maple syrup – heat it up first (microwave or small pot) – this will make it thinner and runnier and you’ll need far less!

  • Katie Perata

    I love maple syrup and alway eat the real stuff!

  • Laura

    The amazing recipe, if any other maple-syrup lovers are interested :)
    http://kathdedon.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/pecan-pie/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CC5ZOODLDOUSIKFVM5JIMVRUFQ C.E.

    There is this great maple candy that our grandma in alaska sends every xmas! we always look fwd to it!mmmmm….

    trixie420247 at yahoo dot com

  • kelly

    I love maple syrup. grade B is best and i bakenwith it too!

  • Sharon

    we used to sit by the fire and eat maple syrup snow cones while they were boiling the sap. good times!  also the home made maple sugar candies.

  • Wisewoman

    My family loves maple syrup.  The kids love it on our whole wheat waffles!  They are always amazed when I tell them it takes over 30 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/manifest.stefany Manifest Stefany

    Maple sweetened Hot Chocolate and brownies for Winter. Bring on the Blizzards!

  • Amelia

    My most memorable maple syrup moment was a few weeks ago, standing up with a plate in front of me, on which sat the first crepe I ever made. I was in Brittany France, after being taught by two twin boys from the region to cook my own crepe. I stood there proudly, and delightfully poured maple syrup over my buttery crepe. Speaking French. Delicious bites.

  • elisa.b

    Mmmm proper maple syrup on waffles or abelskivers. My favorite! :)

  • http://6512andgrowing.wordpress.com/ 6512 and growing

    on pancakes!

  • Laurie

    Maple Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting!  Apologies to the vegans (I rarely eat dairy), but any kind of cream cheese frosting is divine, especially this one!  

  • Christine Brown

    A CANADIAN prize?  Does this mean a Canadian could qualify?  It’s funny how growing up in the Eastern part of Canada (which it sounds like you did), maple syrup was so common and visiting maple syrup cabins (cabanes a sucre) was a right of passage!  I would have to say that my mosty most memorable maple syrup moment was my first visit to a maple syrup cabin in the deep woods of Nova Scotia.  We snowshoed/XC-skied/snowmobiled (whatever you got your hands on…) in for what seemed like miles (or kilometres, for my true Cdn authentic storytelling!) and finally came across the little wooden shed that had no electricity and a woodstove in the middle.  But outside the shed was the best part–the boiler than turned unappealing sap into beautiful, golden syrup, that when at just the right temperature, was poured onto the snow in individual-sized portions.  No popsicle sticks to be found, we braved sticky mittens to gather every last piece of maple taffy off the snow.  It was love at first lick.  Now a resident of Ottawa, my winter is not complete without my $2 maple taffy treat at the yearly Winterlude festival! 

  • Cleocatra45

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on my mom’s pancakes.

  • John J

    My favorite is maple syrup on vanilla ice cream!

  • Chris Murray

    Favorite is  french toast drowned in butter and  bona fide Canadian maple syrup.  And I’m definitely going to try that recommended cheddar cheese and maple syrup snack…if I win…and I should because I really like maple syrup.

  • Valerie Pierce

    With vanilla ice cream.

  • http://twitter.com/panfusine Panfusine

    I have maple syrup with South Indian crepes known as Dosa & a spicy variant of it made with different kinds of lentils known as ‘Adai’ a habit i picked up from my 5 yr old!

  • Katiekgarrity

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is to use it in pumpkin pie and to use it in the bacon I cure every fall: maple, garlic, peppercorn bacon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kellisritter Karen J Ellis-Ritter

    I use maple syrup as a sweetener for a home-made teriyaki sauce.  I use the maple, lime juice, ponzu sauce, tamari, minced garlic, lemongrass, toasted sesame oil and a dash of chili powder. Yum!

    It is also fantastic for making candied pecans to go over multigrain pancakes.

  • Caitlyn M.

    Oooh, how fun! I like maple syrup on everything possible… It’s good stuff. :)

  • Guest

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup

  • Vicky

    baked into winter squash!  need I say more!

  • Emily

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is slathered on bread with peanut butter and sometimes bananas.

  • Sue

    I had know idea that Canada/Quebec was the largest producer of maple syrup. When my friend from Quebec visits, she brings other things like a local framboise liqueur, but never maple syrup!  

  • Bonnie

    One of my favorite maple syrup moments was tapping a sugar maple with my three year-old (right in the city of Chicago at the North Park Village Nature Center). When the sap started to flow his eyes lit up and then he got to taste the liquid. Every single time we have maple syrup he says “This syrup comes from a tree!” 

  • Sarah M

    Should good fortune bring this maple-y goodness to me, I will likely use some of it on salmon.  Mmmm…

  • Michelle Henry

    My FAVE way to eat (drink actually) maple syrup is to add some to seltzer  with a dash of cream and make an Egg Cream… Brooklyn meets Canada! YUM

  • Sasidhar G B

    my favorite way to eat maple syrup is on Pancakes, crepes, waffles and whole grain toast.

  • Heatheryv23

    I was hooked on real maple syrup at a young age…I fondly remember the day our class took a field trip to a Wisconsin maple syrup farm and they had us try a variety of syrups and even the awesome maple leaf candies.  I have forever poo-pooed the unreal version of syrup in stores and restaurants.  It’s gotta be the real deal on a light and crispy waffle topped off with strawberries, blueberries or peaches!

  • Anonymous

    My favorite way to use maple syrup is in a pecan pie. I always add it to my pecan pies. Delicious!!!

  • http://savoringtoday.com Judy@SavoringToday

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on blueberry pancakes with butter. My kids would say “as a dip for bacon” — it’s all good!

  • Laura Donovan

    I love maple syrup poured over a bowl of homemade madzoon yogurt with granola and fresh peaches! Thanks for your great food consciousness! Love your blog. ~ Laura

  • christine kudulis

    I live in Florida and maple syrup is one of the connections I feel for my roots up north. Although I’m on a strict budget these days, maple syrup is worth the cost.

  • Paul Tomlinson

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on waffles.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266103874 Sharon Stewart

    My favorite way too eat maple syrup is on waffles with a big dollop of cream on it. Yes it is traditional, but traditional is good too.

  • Bright

    Love grade B on sturdy whole grain pancakes.

  • Jillmennig

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is… a light drizzle on my greek yogurt.

  • Comedy312

    My favorite maple syrup momen came, as most of my happy kitchen accidents do, when I decided to improvise. I was making turkey burgers for The Girlfriend and myself, and I wanted to make the burger juicier than ground turkey usually ends up. As I held the patty I had formed in hy hand, I happened to see a bottle of maple syrup and thought, “They put cheese inside burgers, why not syrup?” Since nobody was there to answer, I poured a dollop in the middle of the patty and folded it to reform apaty. In addition to being tasty (and juicy), while it was cooking it gave off the ineffable nostalgic smell of sausage and pancakes with syrup, reminding me of camping trips when I was a kid.

  • Kim

    My most embarrassing “maple syrup moment” was when my health-minded good friend (who happens also to write this blog) was visiting recently and she opened up the fridge to find a giant container of Mrs. Butterworth’s (gasp).  I always used to buy real maple syrup (and, at that, only syrup with direct ties to Quebec) but lately the price has skyrocketed to a point where I can no longer sit by casually and watch my kids pour liquid gold on waffles/yogurt/oatmeal/each other.  In all honesty, if you can put aside your nutrition goals, fake syrup can be pretty darn tasty!  

  • Allison

    My first taste of real maple syrup was at Brownie camp — 60 years ago when they still served real food. I never could tolerate the fake stuff after that, because I’d never had syrup before. What a great way to start!

  • 1kristi Evans

    We always got a gallon of syrup in the spring and the first thing we did was line up for a spoon full to “test it out”.

  • Christy

    yummmm! I love Canadian Maple Syrup on absolutly anything I can :0)  a most decadent treat I enjoy on special occasion is maple syrup in my dark bold coffee. Growing up on a farm in western canada I understand how much goes on behind ‘the scenes’ to create this Canadian treasure; & how blessed we are to have the climate to support these amazing trees in central canada.  Thank you for producing this pleasure & tantilizin’ our taste buds with your sharing.

  • Elipsos

    My most memorable maple syrup event was a few years back. I grew up in the South and didn’t encounter winter squash until grad school when I living in a communal house with international students. One had a knack for combining food in an interesting mix and figured she was the one responsible for the acorn squash filled with apples, nuts and drenched in maple syrup. My Northern friends set me right! Introduced it at the next family gathering and it’s been a staple ever since! Who’d have thought tree sap would turn me on to vegetables? :)

  • Anonymous

    There are just so many ways to enjoy a great maple syrup.  I love to drizzle it over my oatmeal, on pancakes, waffles or french toast or even over french vanilla ice cream with walnuts.

  • Becki

    Last Thanksgiving I put maple syrup into cranberries instead of sugar and had the most incredible cranberry sauce I’ve ever consumed. I’ve always wanted to try the maple syrup in packed snow since I read it in a children’s book when I was eight.

  • Anonymous

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on pancakes, of course.

  • http://www.deep-roots-farm.com Marci @ Deep Roots Farm

    I have fallen in L-O-V-E with grade B syrup (and I live in the west). I love the dark richness it adds to granola and yogurt in the morning, sausage frying in a pan for lunch and drizzled over salmon for dinner. But my FAVORITE way to eat maple syrup is by the loving spoonful

  • Lydia Gaster

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is to fill the cup of a red raspberry with Grade A Medium syrup and then pop the whole thing into my mouth.  Mmm!

  • Sarah

    My strongest memory of eating maple syrup is from when I was pregnant. I craved steamed milk with a spoonful of maple syrup mixed in – mmmm. Something I now still get cravings for!

  • Melanie Metzger

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on venison breakfast sausage.  And spun into cotton candy. (I had that once at an Amish farmer’s market in Upstate NY

  • Elaina Asay

    I could go on and on about my love of maple syrup. I like to make maple oatmeal scones with real maple syrup.

  • Laurie B.

    Memories of sweet, sticky maple syrup figurines that my brother and I shared as small children takes me to a lovely, warm place.  We would choose a maple-leaf shaped goody in a small paper holder and work so hard to split our delicacy evenly down the middle.  I can still bring back that sensuous feeling! 

  • http://charmaingiuliani.com Charmain

    mmmmm ample syrup give this

  • Judy

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is drizzled over my steel cut oatmeal on the many COLD Michigan mornings we get.  But I also love to dip my bacon in it!

  • Annemarie

    i love maple syrup too much to limit it to just breakfast (though its key to my granola recipe)- a maple tamari roasted veggies are a fall favorite of mine!

  • Jennifer

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is drizzled into every little nook of a waffle. It’s a little OCD :)

  • Nijaber

    dark amber on anything I can get my hands on!!

  • Betsy

    Most memorable maple syrup moments: snowy winter weekends when I was a little kid in Omaha, Nebraska, and daddy made big stacks of bacon and pancakes and put that syrup tin shaped like a little cabin on the table.  Pure bliss.

  • Teresa

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on plain yogurt! A close second is banana cornmeal pancakes, with a dollop of yogurt on top of the stack.

  • Sandalsnoscrip

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is as little maple sugar candies pressed into the shape of maple leaves.  I remember them from childhood and haven’t had them for years
     

  • Laura

    I went to a maple shack in Quebec @ Christmas. Ate pancakes and had maple syrup drizzled into snow. Great time. I love real maple syrup on blueberry pancakes too!

  • Janet

    I just made a fabulous batch of granola and I used maple syrup as the sweetener. The maple syrup we have came from a small company in Door County called Jorn’s Sugar Bush. Love their syrup!

  • Mehrunnisa Yusuf

    My first taste of maple syrup was from a precious little bottle that my dad bought home. It was Canadian from the US. We were only allowed a teensy bit because it was an excellent grade and we wanted to savour every bit.

  • Phoebe

    Growing up in Vermont, of course we had plenty of maple syrup but if you can believe it I didn’t really like it..crazy,I know! Now I LOVE it and I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this but… my favorite way to eat maple syrup…is to drink it. yep, drink it! Not a lot at one time, just a little goes a long ways. Of course I also love it on waffles, pancakes and french toast. In Vermont they sell soft serve maple ice cream and is it ever dreamy!

  • http://www.thesweetbeet.com Michelle Madden

    I remember that tin packaging as well!  Wonder if it’s still made … 

  • Kate

    my favorite way to eat maple syrup is maple cotton candy, or on a spoon.

  • Jacquelyn

    Next to a big lottery I cannot think of anything I would love to win than MAPLE SYRUP. 
    Remember back in the 70′s….there was a box of maple flavored hot cereal called “Maypo”
    Now it is extinct.  But that might have been my first awareness of maple. 
    Then there was the hot lemonade fasting drink made with Grade B.  I still love it as a mid-winter hot drink.
    Well, I have Vermont friends.  A jug of maple syrup awaits in their frig my next visit.  but it may be years.
    While in Vermont I had “maple creamees”  …………wow.  soft ice cream made with maple syrup.
    Out here on the West Coast one of my favorite uses of maple syrup is with whipped butter on tender
    little oatmeal pancakes. 
    I love maple syrup on baked winter squash.  On hot oatmeal.  Buttermilk waffles.
    I LOVE MAPLE SYRUP!!
    besides I listen regularly to CBC radio. 
     

  • http://www.thesweetbeet.com Michelle Madden

    Ha!!! I think I just averted my eyes ….

  • http://www.thesweetbeet.com Michelle Madden

    Hey, if it goes with sausages for breakfast, why NOT with a burger at dinner!

  • mandy all

    on flapjacks of course! I will never eat “pancake syrup” again.

  • Paalexand

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is in sweet mashed potatoes and of course pancakes/waffles/french toast…;-)

  • Chris Maria

    hello The Sweet Beet, As a topping/mix-in for oatmeal or granola w/ soy milk

  • Elizabeth M Thompson

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is mixed with peanut butter as a dip for crisp fall apples!

  • alisha

    My most memorable maple syrup moment was…
    I dated a Québécois for a few years, and loved his stories of buying maple syrup candy from street vendors.  They have bins of snow, and pour hot maple syrup onto it in strips, then quickly roll it up into a popsicle stick and give the gooey sugary delicacy to the customer. I was enchanted, as I had read about this in Little House on the Prairie as a child and had tried it unsuccessfully several times. 

    One winter we took a road trip to Montreal, and as we left the subway, there in the lobby was a maple syrup candy vendor. We both had one, and it was probably not only my favorite maple syrup moment, but also my favorite candy moment. So yummy.

  • Lisa C.

    My favorite memory of maple syrup is staying at my grandmother’s house with my cousins.  For breakfast Grandma would make toast and we each had a small purple bowl of syrup to dip our toast in.  We would eat it as fast as she could toast and butter it.  I think we went through a couple of loaves of bread each morning.

  • http://Applestoapplesblog.com Dani

    I absolutely love maple syrup!! 

  • quirkeegurl

    My most memorable maple syrup moment was reading how maple syrup candy was made in one of the Little House on the Prairie books: a pot of hot, fresh maple syrup was taken outside and drizzled onto the deep snow; in a little while the chewy candy was ready for munching!

  • Belinda

    My most memorable maple syrup moment will hopefully be winning this contest, because i’ve never actually tried real maple syrup before!

  • Guthrie

    my favorite way is to have them is on pancakes  

  • Idle Wife

    I love maple syrup on egg-in-a-holes. Egg with sweet syrup is the perfect combination!

  • Roxanna

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is with a drizzle on a spoonful of peanut butter. That is until I drizzled some on a piece of wheat berry toast with almond butter. :)

  • Llawryf

    I like it on pancakes, waffles, and french toast.

  • Marie

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is as an ingredient in granola and baked oatmeal!

  • Maria Rosenblum

    I have a few favorite moments eating maple syrup. 1. With my grandmother after she had made me and my sister silver dollar pancakes every weekend when we visited her. 2. Going into our NYC backyard as a kid and scooPing up a big pot of the first snow and drenching it with maple syrup. The slightly frozen bits where my favorite. I can’t believe I ate NYC snow. But to tell you the truth I still do this with my nine year old. Still in NYC. Yikes!

  • Jessica Vanderhoff

    Weirdly, I have two strong maple syrup memories. One is making hard crack maple candy using snow to cool it, and the other is melt-in-your-mouth soft candy at a nature preserve during the maple syrup festival.

  • Ejlee14

    i mix mine with pumpkin puree and make a flan with it. delicious!

  • Gushigan

    baked into my favorite banana bread recipe!

  • Playswithfood22

    I love to eat maple syrup in a vinaigrette that I eat on kale salad – at least once a week! It’s also lovely as a sweetener in coffee.

  • Betsy

    My most memorable maple syrup moment was when we brought our three kids on a maple sugar tour. Watching them learn where the syrup they use on thier pancakes, yogurt, oatmeal comes from was fantastic.

  • BRENDA

    MAPLE SYRUP IS FANTASTIC IN MY OATMEAL EACH MORNING. ONCE YOU HAVE HAD “REAL” MAPLE SYRUP THERE IS NO GOING BACK

  • Sarah

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on top of my homemade wheat waffles. Yum!

  • jenna

    i only starting liking (loving!) maple syrup as an adult.  as a kid i was offered only the fake flavored sugar syrup, which i didn’t like at all.  favorite ways to use it: in granola, in oatmeal, in vinaigrettes (yum!).  thanks for the giveaway.

  • Carmels

    I have fond memories of the old Stanley Burroughs fast (really!) the “lemonade” fast, which incorporated water with lemon juice, maple syrup (grade B recommended) and cayenne pepper. It’s a cleansing detox fast, but has become controversial. But the good memories are of how kind it was to include maple syrup to make it all so tasty and keep the stamina going (or so it seemed)! Thanks, Stanley!

  • Sean

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is drizzled over an apple and then roasting it in the oven!

  • Bbaka

    Maple syrup on eggs.  I grew up with it, just a touch and, oh, my mouth waters as I remember the great breakfasts. 

  • Trayjholl

    I love fried chicken and waffles with maple syrup!! It is a new love but oh so delicious!!

  • Emily

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on french toast!  Yum :)

  • Kate

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is… with a spoon!
     

  • http://foodforfuelingup.blogspot.com Danielle

    mmmm, I love maple syrup! I am also Canadian and remember many school trips to ‘sugar shacks’ as a kid. Now I use maple syrup whenever I can to substitute sugar.

  • Lfleischmann

    My best memory of maple syrup is the first time I had it in college. A friend gave my parents some of the “real” stuff and I instantly realized I had been living a syrup lie- the real stuff was sooo  much  better than the lady shaped bottle I had grown up with, and I have never looked back. Yes, I splurge and even let my children have it :)

  • Rhonda Swetnam

    My favorite way to eat Maple Syrup is anyway at all!  It is the best! I take plain Greek yogurt, add walnuts, diced tart apples and maple syrup. I love it on steel cut oatmeal, also with walnuts, diced tart apples and craisins. Maple Pumpkin cheesecake is also to die for.  I use maple syrup as a sweetener in many recipes instead of honey or sugar.  Awesome!  Thank you for the opportunity to win this precious delicacy!

  • lauren

    i have about a million new recipes i could make with that

  • Tanusha8305

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is with my morning oatmeal…

  • Anonymous

    Oh, man, this post worked on me. My absolute favorite way to eat syrup is on hot biscuits – my mom’s – but now that I don’t eat gluten, I will be figuring out a good recipe and testing it out tomorrow. Thanks for planning my Saturday morning!

  • kcc

    love maple, love canada!!!

  • Jhharris

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on homemade yogurt.

  • Jhforster

    Do you ever worry that it is becoming increasingly obvious that the majority of your posts are sponsored?  I’d rather have ads on your website than 500+ word advertisements pretending to be a blog.

  • Laura Brewer

    I love maple syrup not only on pancakes and waffles, but I sweeten my oatmeal with it too.  

  • Laura Brewer

    My most memorable maple syrup memory is when I was about 10, my family took me to a Buckwheat festival in WV.  I remember it was fall & chilly and we waited in line for the pancake breakfast.  Never had buckwheat before.  The pure maple syrup tasted so good on those cakes.  The festival was fun & lots of good bluegrass music too.

  • http://healthygirlskitchen.blogspot.com Wendy (Healthy Girl)

    Pure maple syrup is the way that I sweeten any recipe that calls for sweetener. I substitute it for other sweeteners all of the time. I think my favorite use of maple syrup is in salad dressing. Pretty crazy, huh? I love that sweet/savory combination in dishes. But my kids, they like to dip their pancakes into a small bowl of maple syrup.

  • Anonymous

    We eat a lot of Maple syrup at our house. One of our favorites is Maple syrup added to Polenta for a side dish at a meal.

  • http://www.thesweetbeet.com Michelle Madden

    Thanks for raising this but two important things to point out – none of these give-away posts are sponsored. I receive no money for them whatsoever. No brand can buy their way into a post, I will only ever give product away that I personally love and think you will too. I also try to take the post beyond just “win product” and make it entertaining, inspiring and educational, so hopefully it does not just feel like a simple give-away.

    If I ever were to do a sponsored post in the future (which I might do) I will always label it very clearly as a sponsored post so you can choose to read it or not.

    In terms of frequency, it’s actually not all the that frequent (and certainly not the majority of posts) – the last time I did I giveaway was early August (for Chobani) and before that it was in June for Lodge cast iron.

    But thanks for voicing your opinion.

  • Vicki

    A great way to enjoy maple syrup is to combine it with mustard as grilling sauce on salmon.

  • Kwportland

    I love maple syrup on oatmeal.

  • Jen

    My most memorable moment was when we moved back to the Northeast after a 4 year hiatus in Florida.  We took our young children to a sugaring festival and they were treated to Maple Milk for the first time.  Hot chocolate took a backstage for months after that event.

    My favorite way: sweet maple syrup drizzled over strawberries, pancakes optional.

  • Sanielj

    on a sausage biscuit frenched in maple syrup

  • Anonymous

    yum, yum, YUM! Love maple syrup = )
    & growing up in FL,  we never got to eat it on snow, but when I was a kid my absolute fave was the maple sugar candy we’d get @ a local gourmet shop. I also loved to dip breakfast bacon & sausages in it.
    Nowadays, I like to use it to sweeten fruit crisps  esp. the 1s I make w/ w/ a mix of apples, plums & raisins.

  • Anonymous

    Ooh – almost forgot i like to use it in pecan pie too – w/ a bit of nutmeg.

  • Anonymous

    I like that too – but forget the bread – I just stir it into a couple of Tbs. nut butter (almond is fantastic) until thick & fudgy & eat it w/ a spoon!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001195650161 Hannah Giles

    I make granola with Maple Syrup. Mostly I love French Toast dipped in Maple Syrup. Straight off the spoon is nice, too.

  • Veitch Friedman

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on french toast.  We really only have it on special occasions.  

  • Stephanie

    When I see the words “maple syrup” I immediately think of my dad.  When my brother and I were growing up he always had to have his “real” maple syrup.  My mom would make pancakes or french toast and get out the fake stuff for the rest of us.  But my dad would go to the cabinet, take out his special bottle of real maple syrup.  He would pour a little bit into a tiny glass container and pop it in the microwave for a few seconds.   He was very particular about always having his maple syrup.  When I was got old enough and savvy enough to realize that what he had was better than the fake stuff I had, he began to share it with me.  When I think of maple syrup I can only think of his special affinity for “the real thing.” He passed away 6 months ago, and in fact I probably wouldn’t even want
    the winnings of maple syrup because I would just wish I could share it
    with him.

  • C Yaz

    Every Christmas Day of my 1950′s childhood was marked with the appearance, and disappearance, of my grandmother’s homemade maple candy.  There it would sit year after year, on the same small table in her little farmhouse living room, covered in tin foil with a fat bladed table knife by its side.  The Christmas tree, trimmed with bubble lights and carefully arranged icicles, stood in the same small room, seemingly watching over watching over us, the children, until the evening meal was over.  Family tradition required that all the arrivals – one uncle and his family was always late, the cooking – everything from scratch down to the butter, the eating – long lingerings of adults at the big table, the kitchen cleaning – hand washing, drying, and refilling cupboards, had to be complete before opening gifts on Christmas night.  So at the first point of possible mid-morning boredom, my sisters, cousins, and I would sneak into the living room ever so quietly, lift the tin foil, and begin our own private feast, consuming sliver upon sliver of my grandmother’s maple candy.  All the while, we were mindful of just how much we could eat and not get in trouble with our parents when the adults came in for opening gifts and discovered our ingeston.  Little did we know then that we were not capable of getting into trouble in our grandmother’s house and that candy was just for us!  Perfectly sweet, mapley, and creamy, the candy was capable of making your teeth zing if you ate too much at once.  It was divine, as was my grandmother, who left each of her grandchildren with a trove of treasured memories, including the magic of turning real maple syrup into real love!       

  • Mary

    On french toast!

  • http://twitter.com/earthlyepicure Allie B.

    I love combining maple syrup with roast pumpkin and bacon for breakfast, drizzled over roast brussels sprouts, and to make a Champagne vinaigrette dressing… DELICIOUS!!!

  • Michellea

    I love cheese but can’t imagine.  I will have to try this!

  • Michellea

    Maple syrup is best on pancakes and bacon!  Yum!!

  • Altoriso

    My favorite way to eat, or shall I say, imbibe, is in coffee.
    Many years ago, I was visiting artist friends at their studio and they gave us mugs of coffee to drink.
    The aroma from the coffee was a delicious fragrance, like sweet perfume…..I had no idea why since I did not see the coffee being mixed.
    With my first sip, I knew there was something different here and I was hooked.
    Since that time, maple syrup is the only way I sweeten my coffee.

    Maple syrup is not just for pancakes or waffles.

  • Altoriso

    My most memorable maple syrup moment was when I was given to eat, a dish of roasted root vegetables that my sister had prepared. The carrots, parsnips, turnips, sweet potatoes and beets had been in a marinade made up of maple syrup, lemon juice, a dash of tamari, garlic, salt & pepper.
    After roasting in the oven, the perfectly cooked vegetables emitted a perfume that was as intoxicating as a newly baked cake.
    The taste was divine, indeed it was the perfect blend of earthiness and sweetness.
    I always use maple syrup when roasting vegetables, even brussels sprouts and whenever I eat them, memories of that afternoon spent in the warm and fragrant kitchen with my sister, come flooding back to me.

  • Sandy

    My favourite way to eat maple syrup is in a nice creamy brown rice pudding on a cold winter’s day.

  • Marcia

    I love it on my oatmeal with some blueberries.

  • Annie

    Honestly, my most memorable moment of maple syrup was when I first tried organic syrup…it was pricey but it was so worth the taste…who knew syrup could taste like that 

  • elliot8814

    My favorite maple syrup memory involves my sister’s fiance.  He is a maple syrup addict.  As part of his college graduation gift, my parents bought him a gigantic bottle of pure maple syrup.  There’s a photo of him that still sits on my parent’s fridge of him in his cap and gown, smiling like a kid at Christmas and pretending to guzzle it straight from the bottle.  He will put it on anything!

  • Sarah

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is when it has been whipped until it is thick and creamy and then spread on toast!  It is far superior to Nutella…  Although, I love maple syrup pretty much every way possible – the only cotton candy worth eating is the kind made from maple syrup that I can only get once a year at the farm show!!!

  • Bdiffley

    My favourite way to eat maple syrup is combining it with ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg and drizzling this mixture over sweet potatoes before roasting them in the oven.

  • http://www.insightfulappetite.com/ Sofia

    love maple syrup on homemade whole wheat pancakes… simple but good.

  • Tanya

    My family and I are currently loving a kale salad with apples and maple syrup dressing…but we love it any old way!

  • Acer

    My favorite way to eat Maple Syrup is actually to drink it… as wine! I brew it similar to the way one would brew a mead, and the taste is absolutely delicious. The beverage can be referred to as merely “Maple Wine” or Acerglyn.

  • http://chickenwireandpaperflowers.blogspot.com/ Becky

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on fried apples and sausage.  So good.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1528836158 Jeanene Evans

    I love to eat maple syrup on apple crisp!!

  • http://twitter.com/elangomatt Aaron Bretveld

    Grade B is my favorite type of maple syrup even though everyone thinks the Grade A is the best. I like the more mapley flavor of the grade B and I don’t think I have to use as much on my pancakes to enjoy it. elangomatt at gmail dot com

  • Aimée Goggins

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is over oatmeal cooked with bananas. I stir in some almond butter and add a little milk. So good! It’s my go-to breakfast during cold weather.

  • http://www.thegoodsoup.com Angela

    My favourite way to eat maple syrup is off the table top.

    Usually after I’ve left the bottle upside down (with its lid on, of course) to drain the very very last last little bit of maple syrup to the top of the bottle. Invariably the lid fails to hold the syrup in and I come back to a puddle of it on my bench top. It’s a lovely wooden bench top and I get to enjoy the taste of pure maple syrup off the end of my sticky index finer.

  • Patti

    My current favorite way is to use it to make maple syrup caramels. 

  • Andreacohenharris

    My first experience with maple toffee was at Tremblant. After that, I couldb’t get enough arable.

  • Shana

    I love maple syrup in my coffee! It also makes appearances in pumpkin puree, baked goods, and partnered up with mustard in marinades.

  • Shhhkate

    My favorite way to use maple syrup is in cooking! Sauces, baking, drizzled over veggies – yum!

  • Laura

    I love maple syrup on french toast with toasted, chopped pecans or in oat carob cookies.  

  • Caroline

    I love maple syrup poured over a hot waffle with vanilla ice cream :)

  • Linn

    I like to bring a bottle with me when traveling to Eastern Europe or Turkey; it is fun to share it with people for the first time!

  • Kkerber

    We are addicted! Daily consumption on waffles, buttermilk pancakes and on yogurt.

  • Denae Dahlen

    I love french toast with maple syrup.  But I am totally going to do the snow/maple syrup this winter!  Sounds wonderful.

  • Maryellenfinucane

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup, if I have to choose one favorite way, is on vegetarian sausage. I bake with it frequently, of course serve it with pancakes, drizzled it on snow when I was a kid….

  • Joe

    French toast

  • http://www.smedette.wordpress.com Smedette

    My husband drowns his waffles and pancakes in maple syrup; he loves it!

  • Kirsten

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on multigrain pancakes with sliced bananas. 

  • Kirsten

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on multigrain pancakes with sliced bananas. 

  • Vincenzo

    When living in Eastern Ontario for 2 years, I made friends with several maple producers at the farmers’ market and lugged several heavy tins of it across the country when I moved away. 

  • recyclingretro

    A nearby local farm (we are CSA members of this farm) has a wonderful Sugar Shack/House.  In the spring, when they are in the middle of their Maple syrup production, the state of Maine has a Maine Maple Sunday when people around the state can tour these Sugar Shacks/Houses and sample their syrups in a variety of ways .  There might be a pancake breakfast, or numerous and wonderful samples of various maple treats, along with bottles of the current years harvest.  While we love their syrup (and love to use it on our pancakes, in our morning oatmeal, and in various recipes); we would welcome the opportunity to sample some of Canada’s syrup.  My favorite treat from our favorite farm are their Maple dusted almonds. 

  • Liz

    Love the photo! Probably my favorite way – though hard to beat pancakes – is over vanilla ice-cream with some walnuts! Yum!

  • Sara

    On pancakes and in granola recipes. Yum- thanks for the opportunity to win this!

  • Lokyee Au

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is when it’s in yogurt!

  • http://twitter.com/textbkleftovers Textbook Leftovers

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is MAPLE CANDY!

  • Devon Corbet

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is licking the slightly crystalled bottle when it drips down the side after I’ve poured some on (anything) something.

  • Samantha

    My favorite way to use maple syrup is in a hibiscus drink that I make, or with butter and a touch of bourbon on pancakes.

  • http://twitter.com/prasadagirl Lisa Shepherd

    LOVE your photos!!!

  • Lauren Rae

    ahhh maple syrup.  i love it mixed with some whole grain mustard and painted on salmon fillets the best… but granola, pancakes, salad dressing… i think everything can be improved with a little maple.

  • Tammy

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is… with waffles and butter.  I do use it in baking and as a sweetener in drinks, but I was introduced to it as a breakfast treat and love it that way so much!

  • Ashley Donahue

    My fondest maple syrup memory is when I went to college at a small women’s college in Virginia. With no sororities, you belonged to one big happy family. This included a chance to earn your college ring as a junior by enjoying some friendly ribbing by the seniors. Lumped into groups of your making, your senior ring sisters (anonymous until the ring ceremony) instructed you to perform skits, wear costumes, etc… Everyone dreaded and loved the thought of the “food” night. On this night, you were tarred and feathered with various foodstuffs and feather pillows. Even though real maple syrup from our natural foods co-op is always in my fridge and finds its way into the kids homemade granola, tops plain yogurt and ice cream, I CANNOT smell mustard and maple syrup at the same time without thinking of 20 years earlier!

  • http://www.facebook.com/gregonweb Greg Kuehn

    Organic sweet brown rice, organic raspberries, almond milk, fresh ground flax and chia seeds, topped with a drizzle of maple syrup.  That’s my favorite way to eat it.  GREAT breakfast!!

  • Autumn

    Ooh, I always add maple syrup to my homemade baked beans…  :)   My family is from upstate NY, so we always had maple syrup in the house from our neighbors who tapped their own every year! 

  • http://www.planithealthier.com Deirdre

    Treading carefully, not wanting to step on any Canadian toes, I feel compelled to offer a shout out to US sugarmakers, namely in Vermont. Being a small-scale backyard version of one myself, I love being able to participate in the centuries-old late winter tradition of tapping trees and filling up on maple syrup as if it, well, grew on trees. Being a nutrition consultant, I greatly appreciate the recent findings coming out of Quebec which show additional health benefits of our favorite “liquid gold”.

    As I admire the brightly colored yellow, orange and red colored leaves on my sugar maples on this fall day, I hope you’ll allow me to add the link to my early spring post on maple syrup.http://planithealthier.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/the-sweetest-season

    Enjoy, enjoy!
    Deirdre in northern Vermont

  • Suzanne Johnston

    My most memorable maple syrup moment was sitting on the floor of our kitchen with a tall glass of milk (at age four) and pouring maple syrup into the glass to make maple-flavoured milk. It was absolutely gross, but I drank it anyway because that’s just what you do when you’re four.

  • kat

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on biscuits!

  • http://profiles.google.com/sarah.dilettante Sarah Ross

    Mmmmm. My favorite way to eat maple syrup is as candy or as a flavoring/sweetener for baked goods.

  • KierraHenderson

    My grandpa used to make maple syrup in Iowa on his farm. We would go into the timber on the gator with a gigantic drum on the back and retrieve the syrup from the tapped trees all through the woods.  It was so much fun! Not to mention staying up all night to help cook it down in the sugar shack. Rarely did my grandpa sell his maple syrup he just gave it away to friends and family. He is such a great man and he’s the best part of my maple syrup memories.

  • Jnskane

    Yummy on sweet Potatos!

  • Sarah Carere

    My favourite way to eat maple syrup is on pumpkin pancakes…which is what I just did on Sunday!  Yum!

  • Adrea

    It’s not very original but my favorite way to eat maple syrup is still on pancakes. Reminds me of mom and my childhood…

  • Bcgyal92

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on whole grain waffles made by my husband and kids!

  • Robyn

    This summer I was in Ottawa and got introduced to reduced maple syrup in a small ice cream cone – it was amazing and an epic sugar high! 

  • Meredith

    My favorite maple syrup memory is of spending a day helping my Dad’s friends make maple syrup when I was young. At the end of the day, a mug of freshly made, still warm from the boiling process maple syrup was passed around and we all shared a sip or two. It was delicious!

  • Danielle

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on french toast!! Mmm. I’m a big maple syrup snob and refuse to eat the fake stuff… even if it means paying $3 at a restaurant for it (which is beyond ridiculous!).

  • Beth

    Maple syrup in my coffee!

  • Cato442

    Spent a summer in Canada & discovered the tast goodness of a waffle with melted cheddar cheese & maple syrup. Yum!

  • Alex_newell

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is over vanilla ice cream, with some wild Maine blueberries and some fresh mint. SO delicious!! I live in Maine half the year, so I feel ya on the maple-syrup love!

  • Nadia

    Awesome giveaway! Thanks for something maplelovers will appreciate. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tamara-Marie/100001680813857 Tamara Marie

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is melting it with butter and pouring it over freshly popped and salted tasty popcorn. Once I discovered this delicious snack movie nights have been even more amazing!

  • Ashly H

    My most memorable maple syrup moment was when I was in VT visiting my boyfriends family in their rural cabin and his Aunt showed me how her neighbor tapped his trees for syrup and created a system so it would all funnel into his house. He  bottled it up and shared it with everyone on the mountain. (This is a very rural part of VT and there are about 10 houses on the hill) And she explain how she would make big batches of home made granola using his syrup and then share the granola with the rest of the neighbors on their mountain. It was nice to see a small micro-community come together and share such a sweet treat of nature.

  • Val

    I had maple syrup to my oatmeal, my smoothies or my muffins…great addition to make a bit sweeter the healthy way :) Writing a muffin cookbook and maple syrup is in a lot of recipes!

  • Heidi

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup was when I was a kid growing up in Maine, we when would have a jar of it from the sugaring shack in the refrigerator, where it was taffy-like and crystallized.  I would sneak a spoonful of it now and then and be in heaven!  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-David-Taylor/68601603 Jonathan David Taylor

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is any way but in the Master Cleanse maple cayenne lemonade. 

  • Diana

    amber syrup on pancakes, with cinnamon!

  • gail_annacarto

    I love to make a sauce w/maple syrup and cayenne & brush over roasted winter squash with a splash of lime – yummmm

  • Jenny

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on German Pancakes!

  • Blair Buras

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is drizzled over greek yogurt with fruit and granola

  • http://twitter.com/BOlekas Brandon

    Love maple syrup. Hope I can win some :)

  • Emily

    I always wondered what the difference was between different grades. Thank you!

  • Mglawler

    My favorite way to eat Maple Syrup is over stuffed french toast. Christmas morning we have a baked stuffed french toast and we smother it in Maple Syrup that has been warmed on the stove with strawyberries. YUM!

  • K8inhawaii

    as a born and raised New Englander who now lives in Hawaii….. I MISS GOOD MAPLE SYRUP!!!

  • Kat

    On cold evenings I like Maple Syrup in cocktails, made with either Maker’s Mark or Canadian Rye!

  • Amelia

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup used to be on scrambled eggs.  My pediatrician (who was from Quebec) encouraged it.  

  • Rosie F

    I know why you pediatrician encouraged having maple syrup. It is high in antioxidants!  And that’s more reason to eat maple syrup along with its awesome taste.

  • Patty

    Well..two ways actually I love maple syrup is, on my oatmeal in the morning & on my Ice Cream for dessert~! YUM! =)p

  • Allison Coe

    I love to eat maple syrup on pancakes, waffles, and used in my candied pecan recipe….so delicious.

  • RMJ

    may sound lame, but maple syrup on waffles is my favorite.

  • Aguess

    Maple syrup on belgian waffles with butter YUMM!  My best maple syrup memory is from when I was at graduate school in Montreal.  It was late winter and I was moving back to the states in another month or so.  My dear friend and native Montrealer, Megan decided I needed to experience “sugaring off” before I left.  There was a park north west of Montreal we could get to by taking a series of buses where they had a sugar shack.  The day we went it was grey and bitter cold.  Before we finished our journey it started to snow flurry, but undeterred we continued.  When we got to the park they had closed the sugar shack, so we ended up walking to this bakery nearby and eating these delicious dougnuts with a maple glaze. It was as close as I got to maple syrup that day, but it is still a sweet maple memory.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=598102631 Molly Lovelace

    I love maple syrup on crepes and pancakes, too!

  • Susiemcc39

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is over butter pecan icecream

  • Stephanie Engel

    My favourite way to eat maple syrup is on warm homemade bread. Especially if the homemade bread contains oats. YUM!

  • Karli Baumgardner

    Maple syrup has lots of memories foe me too! My grandfather used to make his own in northern Ohio and i remember him standing over a big stainless steel vat cooking it down. It was the best syrup I’ve ever eaten and now I can’t even stand the fake stuff. I love it most on buckwheat pancakes!

  • Dave

    I’ll have to try cheddar cheese and syrup. I like to use it flavor salmon. 

  • http://twitter.com/eclectickitchen Dana Michelle

    I can’t choose just one thing…I love it on Primal Pumpkin Pancakes…and as a natural sweetener.

  • Micheletcapra

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is as a nice, wholesome tasting sweetener in raw chia seed pudding. To make: soak chia seeds in coconut milk for several hours, then blend with dates, maple syrup, cinnamon and cacao and/or maca powder if you wish. Let it sit in the fridge for an hour or two to harden a bit. It’s so simple and delicious!!

  • Micheletcapra

    PS~ Michelle, I love your writing and I thoroughly enjoy reading every post! I wish I could meet you, but I’m stuck on the west coast :)

  • http://yummysmells.blogspot.com/ Sarah R

    Oooh Maple syrup!!! I adore it in so many ways (including off the spoon… shh!) I actually prefer it over homefries and scrambled eggs at brunchtime! 

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  • Pyx

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is with cinnamon on slightly melty, home-made vanilla ice cream.

  • Colene

    I Love maple sryup in cooKies, pancakes, waffles, over veggies, I even love to eat it off a spoon. When I was about 13 I remember making maple taffy and that was the best ever taffy I have ever had.

  • Melanie

    I love maple syrup!

  • http://www.facebook.com/kjcaufield Kristin Caufield

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is off my fingers! 
    Secondly, I love maple cookies!

  • Chikiminkee

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on French Toast, made with Grand Marnier and orange zest! There’s something about that combo of flavors that makes the maple syrup more “maple-y!” Only the real thing will do!

  • Wahooatftc

    My favorite is to use it as a dipping sauce for my pizza crust after eating a piece of pizza. The sweet and savory is a great combination

  • Rasute

    My favorite way to use real maple syrup is on French Toast my husband prepares using thick sliced Texas Toast that is cooked in bacon grease that just previously was lovingly cooked to just the desired crispness. Hmmm, thinking about it is making me a bit hungry.

  • Farside361

    I love pure Canadian Maple syrup on my peanut butter sandwiches!

  • Sarah Rieger

    When I was young we used to go to Vermont once and year and we would get maple candy and we would buy a gallon or two of real maple syrup to use throughout the year.  Now I live in TX and it’s hard to get real maple syrup, so I almost never have pancakes or waffles anymore since the fake stuff you find in stores is nothing like real, fresh maple syrup!!  I LOVE it!!  

  • KAPP

    interesting post. I love to coat bacon with maple syrup and cook in the oven. if there is ever a choice to make and maple is one of them…no contest!

  • Dany

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is with fresh strawberries.  Sometimes, in addition, I’ll add angel food cake and whipped cream with the strawberries and maple syrup.  And to top it all off, kissing the now twice as sweet lips of my wife.

  • Alicia Nakamura

    I buy plain cream of wheat and make my own maple syrup/brown sugar flavor. YUM! This was my High School breakfast of choice. 
    I’m dying to try it in/on  homemade ice cream (I just brought home a Jersey dairy cow, so everything has a potential as an ice cream ingredient!) =)

  • Ellen

    I love maple syrup on greek yoghurt, or drizzled over a fresh apple, but my favorite way is licking it off my finger!

  • shannon

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on pumpkin pancakes for breakfast!

  • Fifty

    Yes, out here in the NW, maple syrup has doubled in price the last 2-3 years.  Sad. 

    I heard a radio show that said the US maple syrup industry may be doomed by global warming.  The New England winters aren’t as long or cold anymore and in some way that lowers production.  Also, a warmer climate tree (an oak, I think) is slowly invading and crowding the native sugar maples out.  A couple of NE maple growers were pessimistic, saying they don’t think they will be able to pass on their family sugar maple grove, as a productive business, to their children.  The narrator said it was predicted that in the future, maple syrup will only come from Canada. 

    This radio show was about 2 American industries that believe in global warming because they think it is already affecting their business.  The other industry was snow skiing.

  • jesus

    my favorite way to eat maple syrup is in and on granola with yogurt.  also, i use it to make lemonade instead of sugar…divine!

  • Adele

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is on pancakes by a warm fire.  I guess I’m just traditional.

  • Donna

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is mixed into a bowl of oatmeal as a tasty alternative sweetener.  Yum!

  • Guest

    Growing up in MA I somewhat had access to fresh maple. My aunt would drive every payday to vermont to get me maple sugar candy! I am being serious! So I became obsessed with those little pilgrims and maple leafs. I live in North Carolina now and crave the taste of maple!!!

  • mo

    My favorite way of eating maple syrup is straight from the spoon! When I was a child my dad, who is a doctor, would make us pancakes on Saturday mornings. He would tell us that the maple syrup was “medicine” for our health and would give us each a spoonful. Eating it this way reminds me of spending those wonderful Saturday mornings with Dad and my two brothers and sister! 

  • Janeanne T

    Love Maple On My Stack Of Buttermilk Pancake!!!! YYYYUUUMMMMM!!!!!WWWWWOOOOOOWWWW

  • Sharon

    My favorite way to eat maple syrup is blended with cream cheese and wraped in a flour tortilla then baked in an oven. drizzle more maple syrup on top after it cools a bit and enjoy. Yum yum.