Sample of Book in the Works, the "Big Kitchen Hunting"
Waffle Hunt I like maple syrup a lot. Almost so much that even the table syrup that contains 2% or less real maple syrup is good, not great mind you but good. Maple syrup requires a delivery method however, or it just feels wrong. I also like making maple syrup, the long slow way, outside over an open fire, in a big pot, cooking it down into a rich dark amber. It gains a lot of smoky flavor from the wood, and it is nothing like the syrup you can get from the stores, not even the stuff that claims to be pure maple syrup. That stuff from the store is cooked on huge flat conveyor belts, over a gas flame, and you can taste the difference. Some people like it better that way, I do not. Sometimes I will then cook it down into sugar, but not often, I prefer the liquid, it fits my favorite delivery system better. Maple syrup delivery is really a simple affair. It consist of some flour, salt, leavening, oil, eggs and buttermilk, or other liq...