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Maple syrup

Sugar maple sap, boiled down about forty to one — caramel, woody and sweet.

caramel · woody · sweet
Maple syrup

What to do with it

Classics built on it
The cocktail barBenton's Old FashionedBourbon washed with bacon fat, stirred down with maple and Angostura: the drink that made fat-washing a bar technique.1 version here

Kinds

Golden
Delicate — early season.
Amber
Rich, the all-rounder.
Dark / very dark
Strong, for cooking and baking.

Goes with

butterbaconpecanoat

Cooked with, here

angostura bitterbrown butter-washed bourbonorange bitter

How much, here

Fat-washed old fashioned, brown butter7.5ml maple syrupRosa Ibarra

Knowing it

Where to buy
Quebec makes most of the world's. Avoid 'maple-flavoured' syrup.