Melinda's Homemade Maple Syrup Recipe

Have you seen the price of real maple syrup lately? Unbelievable! I had to find another alternative and my friend gave me this recipe. I usually quadruple this recipe because my motto is: if you are going to make something from scratch, make a lot of it! I freeze the excess. This will save you a lot of money. I use this homemade maple syrup in all my ice creams. When you use sucanat, it can separate and get hard in the bottom of the jar. If this happens, warm the jar up in a small pan of water on the stove and it will pour out of the jar again.

Hi Jackie,
Here is the recipe for syrup:

Pour: 1 cup boiling water
Over: 2 cups sugar (sucanat)
Add: 1/2 maple flavoring and 1/2 tsp vanilla (you could use more or less of these depending on your taste, also OMIT MAPLE FLAVORING IF GOING TO BE USING IN ICE CREAM, unless you're making maple nut :)

Just play around with it until you find the flavor and consistency you like. We just let ours cool on the counter and then store it in the fridge in a glass jar. I just bought some maple flavoring from natures pantry yesterday and it cost like $4.50 or so. Hopefully it can save a little money.
Take care,
Melinda