Maple Syrup - Better Than Real

Submitted by shipfaced

"The complex taste of real maple syrup eludes most home recipes because of a lack of ingredients. True maple syrup isn't just sweet. It has a subtle astringency and a smokey essence brought out by the hardwood trees it's taken from."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 2.5 cups
• Serves: 25

ingredients

• 946.36 ml brown sugar (one 32 oz package)
• 354.88 ml water
• 9.85 ml maple flavoring
• juice of one lemon
• 2.46 ml liquid smoke (double it if you like it smokey)
• 2.46 ml salt
• 4.92 ml vanilla extract

directions

1. Heat water and sugar til begins to boil. Turn down heat to slowly boil for 15 minutes, remove from heat and add remaining ingredients - vanilla last. This is thicker than real M.S. but thin stuff won't store without refrigeration - this will. I like syrup to be alive and astringent so you might want to reduce the lemon to half the amount if you prefer just sweet.