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White Karo is a treat on pancakes, don't have it much but man is a good!

Twin,
you beat me to it. Any comparison with Maple has to include the diff. grades.
An early run light amber is always something I look for to have a small bottle of around for a splash on icecream or w something that just a hint of maple is needed. Good Dark makes a real statement on the table. Put some of that in your sausage and smoke it!
I read the post a while back about the Cane and have not found a jar yet.
Will gladly give it a go. My kids love the homemade biscuits out of the food thread a while back.
Made syrup on my own all thru my school years. A true rite of spring where I came from. My old micro rig never had the ability to get a run of light amber. I always fell beck on my mentors commercial size operation to find that. Not every spring has the right weather to produce a good early run.

Waaaayyy back in the stone ages when I wuz young, we had a cooker going to make syrup. Threw the skimmings onto the snow and ate that!! Awesome!!! Dark Amber is sooo good that I ONLY provide it to the best of my friends. OTW, they get medium or light as I am very greedy in this respct. EXCEPT, when I get a 10 ouncer of dark, I am sending it to FlyboyFlem and his Hunney cuz THEY rate!!!

Two good sources �
http://www.fainshoney.com/ sells pure cane syrup too.
http://www.steensyrup.com/

I made truckloads of maple syrup growing up. Prefer that to anything. None of that Log Cabin crap or corn syrup infused nonsense. Of course...JMO.

I use Vermont Maple Syrup. Here's the guide. I like fancy but I take what ever I can get.

http://vermontmaple.org/maple-products/maple-syrup/?doing_wp_cron=1375136337.1565229892730712890625

I was raised on sorghum molasses and as far as I know never ate any sugar cane syrup. How do they compare. I like sorghum but a lot of people don't. miles

I growed up so far back in the woods, I didnt know they made maple syrup until I was a teenager. Never heard of getting syrup from a tree, except sweet gum syrup and I never like it!

Of course, even as late as 20 years ago they didnt sell real maple syrup in this part of the country. That a johnny-come-lately product down here.

Having assiduously shunned sorghum molasses for lo! these many decades, I haven't tasted any recently enough to try to describe how it's different from good, pure, uncut ribbon-cane syrup � except to say, in very general terms, that I remember sorghum as somewhat coarser and stronger. IIRC, sorghum is cane, but it's not the much tastier ribbon cane.

Try some good ribbon-cane syrup from Fain's or Steen's [links above], and run your own taste tests. That syrup that I provided at the last two Quemado Campfire bashes was Steen's. Did you try any of it? (The stuff in the yellow cans, not the yukky cane-and-corn-syrup stuff made from rewatered sugar, in the plastic store bottles.)

I stand corrected � just looked it up � sorghum is a grass, a relative of Johnson grass (and contains a tad of cyanide � enough in its early growth to be fatal).

Beat me to it! Sorghum and cane are two entirely different plants!

Well my first choice for pancakes and waffles is Maple Syrup, with a pat or two of butter. My second choice would be Honey. I never had any of the cane syrup that you are all talking about, it must be a southern thing. I just will have to get some and just try it. There is quite a bit of Maple Syrup making where I live. Its a common thing, not quite as well known as Vermont but CT dose produce quite a bit in recent years. Its a very labor intensive thing. But its also a fun thing to do for the 4 to 6 weeks that the sap runs.

The overall taste is somewhat similar, but sorghum syrup is quite a bit stronger and the color is darker, at least all I've ever seen, than ribbon cane syrup.

I did not try it or even see it, but I was busy talking a lot of the time. miles

Maple is for syrup !!! Sugar cane is for making "RUM" !!!!!

Dark amber maple syrup for me too!! Those Eastern Woodland Indians knew what they were doing.

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Soli Deo Gloria!

Dark amber is know as grade "B" we didn't make much this year most was medium amber. Don

Cane syrup here.

Everything we ran was lighter than normal this year. No complaints, though

George

There were syrup mills in the '50s in the local area,sorghum and cane. Mom & Pop corner groceries carried sugar cane stalks during the season for $0.10 each. I stripped many a stalk one section at a time and chewed the sweet juice out of them as candy.

Noticed for the first time as I drove to the rifle range this morning, there was a side road named Syrup Mill road.

I like sorghum, ribbon cane , and maple syrup. I'm suspicious of the Maple Syrup we get down here. Seems very thin(watery). Does real Maple syrup soak into the waffles/pancakes?