Breakfast Sweet: Home-Grown Maple Syrup

Jamieson's syrup catching system

Yesterday's breakfast sweets were a treat. Most days I stick to a healthier routine. For some reason, I used to resist oatmeal, but now it's comforting to have the same dish every morning. It's filling and it works. I have a bowl of old-fashioned oatmeal with a scoop of ground flaxseed meal for the fiber and omega-3 hit and a drizzle of maple syrup. I just use water to make the oatmeal, but we have the blessing of fresh, wonderful maple syrup. Last winter, Jamieson tried collecting his own maple sap for the first time. This year, he added a propane burner pan system that you would expect to see if someone was about to deep fry a turkey, but it sped up the process. He was spending a long time simmering sap on our stove. It took forever, but our whole house had a great maple-syrup tinged humidity to it. Now, he can cut that time down dramatically and keep everything outside until bringing just the last bit of syrup in to finish on the stove top. No high fructose corn syrup on our breakfasts. This stuff is good. It's light, but very tasty. Now we look around at all the other trees in the neighborhood and think of the possibilities. 

William's syrup catching system