Maple is well loved by people with a sweet tooth. Most people love dessert with a touch of maple syrup in it.
Maple syrup is made with evaporated maple sap or a solution of maple sugar. A good mix has no more than 33 to 35 percent of water. A pure maple syrup is four times as sweet as ordinary table sugar.
A microwave or oven works well for temperate maple syrups. When using a microwave, heat the maple syrup at about thirty to sixty seconds per one half cup, depending on how cold the maple syrup is.
When maple syrup is used as an alternative sugar in baking, remember than ¾ cup of pure maple syrup is equivalent to one cup of granulated sugar. You can also decrease the main liquid in the recipe by about three tablespoons for every cup of maple syrup used. Also keep in mind that using maple syrup will give your dessert a brownish tinge.
Listed below are delicious recipes using maple syrup:
1. Maple Teriyaki Salmon Fillets
Ingredients:
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/3 cup apple juice
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 gloves garlic
2 tablespoons chopped onion
4 fillets of salmon
Directions:
In a sauce pan or bowl, combine the apple juice, maple syrup, soy sauce, chopped onions and garlic.
Remove one half for basting, cover this and refrigerate.
For the remaining portions, marinade this into a fillet, and put inside a large Tupperware.
Add salmon then refrigerate for 1 to 3 hours.
Broil it for 10 minutes or until the fillet is cooked. Serve this for your lunch or dinner.
2. Maple Butterscotch Candy
Ingredients:
1/3 cup butter
2/3 cup pure Vermont maple syrup
½ cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
Directions:
Put the pure Vermont maple syrup, butter, water and granulated sugar inside a sauce pan.
Do not stir until a drop of cold tap water separates into pliable threads.
Heat it at about 258o F
Put it in a square pan, wait until it becomes cold, and then slice into 8 inch squares to serve.
3. Maple Fruit Crisp
Ingredients:
1/3 cup pure Vermont maple syrup
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ cup oats
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons silvered almonds
2 ½ fresh berries
½ flour
1 egg
1/3 cup brown sugar
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 peeled peaches cut into wedges
Directions:
Place the oats, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking powder inside a food processor and pulse three times until it mixes together.
Add the egg and pulse until the mixture becomes coarse.
Combine maple syrup, berries and peaches inside any pan and toss.
Bake it for thirty five minutes or until it becomes brownish.
You can serve this with ice cream.
4. Sweet Potatoes with Maple
Ingredients:
½ cup orange juice
2 tablespoons stick butter
½ cup pure Vermont maple syrup
2lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and slice
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
Directions:
Mix the maple syrup, juice, butter, salt, cloves and brown sugar.
Pour over sweet potatoes onto the bottom part of a casserole dish.
Cover it with plastic wrap and microwave on high heat for about 10 minutes.
Syrup is one of the most popular basic ingredient used, while making desserts or sweets. It is a thick, sweet, flavored liquid with a huge amount of sugar in it. There are different flavored syrups, such as fruit, jam, flavored, cream, honey and maple syrup. Syrups are mainly used to sweeten and flavor both the hot and cold drinks, and they are poured on desserts and breakfast foods.
Syrups are used in many different types of drinks. Coffee shops add fruit and other flavored syrups to coffee drinks. Ice cream parlors add chocolate syrup to milk shakes. They are also used in many desserts. Ice cream parlors pour chocolate syrup on bowls of ice cream. Cafés and restaurants pour syrup on cakes, pies, crepes, and pancakes. Maple syrup is often poured on pancakes in North America during the breakfast meal. Maple syrup is made from the sap from maple trees that is boiled until it thickens.
You can use various kitchen tools, for making different recipes from maple or any other syrup. These tools include Bowls for mixing, Electric Griddles & Skillets, Griddles for cooking, Hand Blenders, hand mixers, stand mixers for mixing and blending, and the most important ladles, skillets, spatulas, and Spoons while making the mixture. You can get all these kitchen tools and more from Maine Maple Kitchen.
You can know about the history (origination), making, various benefits, and last but not the least its recipes, of all different types of syrups, such as maple, honey, cream, flavored, jam and fruit. With the help of these recipes, you can know, in which different ways, these syrups can be utilized.
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