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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother question for people in the south
What do you put on your pancakes?
I know you have maples down there but it can't be near as good as Nor'eastern Sugar Maple tapped just as the snow starts to melt.
Admit it. Our syrup is da bomb.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)YES INDEED
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)Clean snow packed down and drizzled with piping hot syrup fresh from the evaporator?
I love NY. It makes putting up with a North Country winter worth it.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)every year I seem to tolerate southern heat less and less.........I sometimes dream of a Janaury in Minnesota
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)But my ass will be retiring to the mountains of central mexico. I have family there and fuck the texas heat.
piedmont
(3,462 posts)Tapped about a dozen red maples, boiled down 10 gallons or so, got two PINTS (!) of syrup. But that was the best damn syrup I've ever had in my life. I wondered if I was the southern-most maple syrup producer that year.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)and a couple years I've tapped them and made my own syrup. It takes a lot of sap but its well worth the effort. I keep telling myself I'm going to do it again but for some reason I always seem to find an excuse from making the 20 mile round trip every day to do that. Hopefully I will this February cause there just ain't anything like your own made maple syrup.
I'm not a big pancake eater though so a little goes a long ways for me. I've got pancakes burned off by 9 am or so.
ETA: We also have a big ass shagbark hickory tree that is supposed to be good for making flavoring for corn syrup that is awesome, or so I'm told.
With it you take a piece of the bark about 2 or so inches with by about 18 inches long and boil the fire out of it to get the flavoring. The part of the bark you use is the inner bark, not the outer bark and thats why I've not done it before because I feel like I'd be raping the tree to get the bark I need. I keep hoping I'll be there when a big limb breaks off and use the inner bark from it but so far I've not been there when that happens
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)The canucks have the best, followed by Vermont.
Change has come
(2,372 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)YES INDEED
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)TYY
brer cat
(24,576 posts)Made just a few miles from where I live, and best purchased still warm. yum.
You keep "da bomb."
Link Speed
(650 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)and I put chocolate chips on my pancakes, along with both maple and strawberry syrup.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)It'd good...it's REAL good...like 96.7 pure.
Walt and Jesse have never let me down.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)I love maple syrup! I love the regional diversity of our country, and feel enriched by much of it. It makes it fun to travel to different places, and I don't mind admitting that I have loved maple syrup for as long as I can remember. Maybe we can have a maple syrup summit for those who are intent on dividing us along regional lines.
Link Speed
(650 posts)Maple is far too lite for me, but, I will admit, I love the differences between the strains.
I like my pancakes in a skin of bacon grease and smothered in Cane Syrup with Serrano peppers on the side with some fried pork belly. Some eggs as I wish.
And bourbon with my coffee.
And pot (Sour Diesel at the moment).
Breakfast is best when served after noon. I set my alarm for 11:11 and get out of bed when I feel like getting out of bed.
Link Speed
panader0
(25,816 posts)Link Speed
(650 posts)But Black Strap doesn't work too well with Serranos.
Bacon grease on everything!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)A piece of bacon in every section (to prevent sticking, of course!), and a little butter before globbing on the cane.
Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)referring to them as 'pancakes' instead of 'flapjacks.'
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)but the other two are not. Pancake is the term used commercially across the entire US for restaurant names, mixes, frozen cakes.
Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)Emphasis upon the 'wee' part.
Squinch
(50,955 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)al_liberal
(420 posts)If we didn't have an IHOP there'd be no pancake making here in HSV. We have Waffle House and another ten places that use waffle in the name. If it's not waffles, it's biscuits of all recipes and forms. And grits, grits with goddam everything.
Being from Chicago I only feed my daughter pure Vermont Maple syrup though.
Apparently the south doesn't need no pancake syrup.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)with cheese and butter instead. Throw in a glass of milk, and you are ready to meet the day.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)I'd rather have dark brown molasses or Karo Brown Syrup on my pancakes, but don't eat them often. When I do, I don't put any syrup on them as my pit bull likes pancakes too, so I give her a few little nibbles.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)But some of our best dishes come from our AA brothers and sisters. Yeah it will kill you if eaten in excess. But hey, we all die at some point. Get you some fried okrah and pan fried chicken and sweet potatoes from a genuine southern establishment (black or white) and you will be in culinary heaven. Pecan pie. bbq (again. white folks and black folks take it to a high art) And dont even get me started on the Mexican influence here in Texas. And those Cajuns across the border in Louisiana! My family is black and white and Mexican. I will put our food up against any in the world.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)We eat flapjacks.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I don't like all of that sugar in the morning.
Uncle Joe
(58,365 posts)We have International House of Pancakes Restaurants down here, the South is going global.
Thanks for the thread, MattBaggins.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)is when I have breakfast at IHOP. Plus they have great omelets.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)I prefer Krusteaz.
TYY
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)you know the right answer is Martha White! Don't take my word for it, ask Flatt and Scruggs!
http://www.marthawhite.com/Recipes/Detail.aspx?recipeID=2719
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)We used Bisquick for everything when I was growing up.
As an adult, I prefer Krusteaz.
TYY
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)(Martha White is a long-time sponsor of the Grand Old Opry)
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)I just realized why I don't recognize anything. My apologies. I'm not from the South. Could that be it?
TYY
Brigid
(17,621 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)I'll have to look for it.
TYY
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Seeking Serenity
(2,840 posts)Coexist
(24,542 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)'Just add water' pancake mix was pioneered by them in the 40's.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)No wonder I like it.
Thanks, Bluenorthwest.
TYY
Brigid
(17,621 posts)I want some!
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Maple is too bitter.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Vermont maple syrup and Maine lobster, Maryland crab and Alaskan salmon, California avocados and Texas beef and Iowa sweet corn and apples from Ohio, Georgia peaches and crawfish from Louisiana-its all good!
I much prefer maple syrup to molasses.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I hate that I have to pay so much for them down here in TX.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)won't grow down here. Not enough chilling hours. If they did, I'd have an orchard!
Good food is good food. I don't care what part of the US it's from.
Except, I'm southern and don't like grits! My husband doesn't just call me a fake southerner, but un-American. lol!
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)as Mitt Romney would say, shrimp and grits New Orleans style, and-on a cold winter morning-grits loaded with butter, beside eggs over easy, biscuits and homemade jelly and bacon. If I hadn't just finished a blt, I'd be hungry.
Sissyk
(12,665 posts)We had sausage gravy with biscuits, eggs over easy, bacon, slice of tomato. Yum Yum.
Hubby, from the same state, grew up eating cheesy grits with a big breakfast.
Oh! Homemade jelly. My grandmother use to make the very best blackberry jam I've ever put in my mouth. There is a bunch of good ones out there, but nothing taste quite like hers.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)made muscadine-blueberry jelly last years. Made enough to feed a small army but I love it on biscuits.
My mom made a killer strawberry-fig preserves. I swear, I could not tell the difference in real strawberry preserves.
Sissyk
(12,665 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Now I'm hungry, and I can't have anything to eat until after my surgery.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)is I never got around to having shrimp and grits. There's just too damn much good food there. I'd mention what I had but in your situation it would just make you miserable and hungrier!
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I eat grits, too. Silly people think we eat pancakes for breakfast.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I eat grits.
With cheese and Tabasco.
struggle4progress
(118,294 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)is biscuits and gravy. Fluffy biscuits, with a white gravy and sausage pieces floating in it along with copious black pepper flakes.
That is a delicacy. We don't need pancakes, we have our own things down here that are phenomenally tasty
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)oneshooter
(8,614 posts)and Steens Pure Cane Syrup.
1 1/2 cup oatmeal
2 cups Buttermilk
2 tsp melted butter
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
1/2 cup flour
You can find Steens at most supermarkets or use Grandmas or Brier Rabbit Molasses
Add a few rashers of bacon, coffee, and a beautiful family to share it all with.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)Address and phone number to follow.
Sam
Throd
(7,208 posts)Warpy
(111,270 posts)From NY through the midwest and down into the south the syrup of choice was the brown glop they still sell in supermarkets, don't ask me why.
When I got disgusted with everything and lit out for Boston in the late 60s, I tasted real maple syrup for the first time and it was a revelation.
I've only used brown glop once and it was homemade brown glop and only until I got the next paycheck so I could buy the real thing again.
maced666
(771 posts)To die for.
longship
(40,416 posts)I buy local.
Alternative: Homemade Michigan elderberry syrup. I have them growing on my road. Too bad. Not enough for making wine.
(And no. My mother did not smell like them. But they're damned good.)
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Your syrup is the bomb and that's why it goes on my pancakes, waffles, french toast.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)One time, we actually got *real* Aunt Jemima, and it was a real treat.
Beearewhyain
(600 posts)Or molasses, or molasses mixed with butter. And if you want to go savory you can have your biscuits with a regional variation of a bechamel sauce that includes spiced and cured meat...otherwise known as sausage gravy. Pancakes are just too one dimensional no matter how much syrup you add.
*Full disclosure, raised in the south but no longer live there.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)And they sell maple syrup, both real and imitation. As well as butter pecan.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)I put Maple Syrup on my toaster waffles this morning. I got it at Trader Joes.
None of that is very Southern, but I hate grits, gross. But now that it is getting cool outside maybe Kentucky isn't Southern until next summer? No, forgot SEC basketball, we're still southern
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)especially as Florida has a lot of it, great for pancakes and for tea