Home Made Maple or Butternut Syrup
Traveling to or from Boulder, Utah, in the 60s where I grew up, took time. Narrow, dusty roads, deep canyons, and lots of washboard patches. Traveling to a big grocey store generally took four hours. In addition, when snow closed the Boulder Mountain road, the time increased. Therefore, my mother made many things we ate from scratch. Home made syrup hot off the stove graced our breakfast table every time we ate pancakes, waffles, corn fritters, and even corn bread.
Mom's Home Made Syrup
So, making your own home made syrup from scratch may sound hard, but mom helped me see its quite easy. With only 5 ingredients, cook your own syrup in only about 10 minutes.
Now, you need to be sure you have a few things in advance, including, sugar, vanilla, mapleine flavoring, and corn syrup.
By the way, corn syryp helps keep crystals from forming in your syrup. If you don’t wish to use corn syrup, you may find other methods here of keeping crystals from forming in your syrup.
How to make syrup at home
- First, add 2 cups of sugar to a 1 quart or 2 quart sauce pan. You may use 1 cup of regular sugar and 1 cup of brown sugar. Mom used only white sugar.
- Next, add 1 cup of water and heat this mixture until it boils. Stir to make sure the sugar disolves.
- Boil for only 1 minute. Yes, only 1 minute.
- Then, add 1/4 cup of corn syrup. You may use white or dark corn syrup. Bring the mixture back to a boil and boil for 30 seconds. The Karo syrup helps the syrup remain liquid and, as mentioned earlier, helps stop sugar crystals from forming.
- Now, remove the mixture from the heat and let cool for 2 minutes.
- Last, to the cooler mixture, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla and
- 2 teaspoons of Maple flavoring or butternut flavoring.
- Finally, stir to mix the flavors.
- Enjoy with your breakfast. Mom stores the syrup in the refridgerator until it is used up.
Recipe for Home Made Syrup
Ingredients for Syrup:
2 cups sugar (or 1 cup white sugar and 1 cup brown sugar)
1 cup water
1/4 cup Karo Syrup
1 tsp. Vanilla
2 tsp. Maple flavoring or Butternut flavoring