Syrup

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16. The flavor is interesting, but I get too much sweetness from it

I have some here that a friend brought down from somewhere up North. I've used it to flavor things when baking and a little goes a long way. I'd never waste it by mixing it with cheap grocery store syrups! That distinct flavor is too expensive to use that way.

As for cane syrup, we actually have a cane grinder and a syrup vat that were left on this farm when we bought it. I doubt the grinder has been used in 50 years, but they used the vat to clean the hogs after the butchered them. Plenty of the small farmers around here (North Florida/South Georgia) still grow an acre or two of cane and make their own syrup to sell. I can get locally produced syrup on the side of the road or sometimes they have it at the little country store down the road where the farmers can still buy mule collars.

The other locally produced item I like on pancakes is tupelo honey - another thing I buy off the side of the road most of the time. Or I get it from the country store or from the natural foods co-op. No other honey is as good as tupelo!