Recipes!

Try  this Banana Nut Bread with warm Maple Syrup!

Mix in bowl:

3 ripe bananas

2 eggs, beat together lightly by hand

Sift together:

1 1/2 cup almond flour

1/2 cup all purpose flour

3/4 cup granulated maple sugar

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

Add dry mixture to the bananas and   eggs

Add 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Stir well

Put in greased loaf pan and bake 350 degrees for 50 minutes to 1 hour until toothpick comes out clean.

Slice the Banana Nut Bread and pour warm Pure Maple Syrup over each slice when serve.

Enjoy!!

1  28oz can  sauerkraut

1/2 cup green or red pepper chopped

1/2 cup onion chopped 

1/2 cup celery chopped

1/2 cup cider vinegar

1/2 cup Pure Maple Syrup or to taste

1/2 cup olive oil

Mix drained sauerkraut, onion, pepper and celery. Add vinegar, oil and maple syrup. Mix well. Refrigerate. Keeps well for 1 week. Serves 6 to 8

Thank you Cornell Cooperative Extension and Dolores Desalvo for this recipe!

Glazed Sweet Potatoes

4 sweet potatoes

2 Tbsp butter

1/4 cup pineapple juice

1  20oz can sliced pineapple

1 cup Pure Maple Syrup

Boil  potatoes with jackets on until tender. Cool slightly. Peel them and slice in pieces 3/4inch thick. Lay a slice of sweet potato over a slice of pineapple and lay the paired slices in a flat baking dish. Beat the maple syrup and the pineapple juice in a sauce pan and add the butter. Pour the liquid over the pineapple and potatoes and set in moderate oven until done. Baste often while baking.

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Maple Glazed Carrots

1 lb cooked carrots

1 Tbsp orange juice

1/4 cup Pure Maple Syrup

Mix maple syrup and orange juice in a small mixing bowl. Pour over cooked and drained carrots. Simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Sprinkle with ginger if desired. You can also use this recipe for yams!

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Maple Roasted Brussel Sprouts

5 slices of bacon

1/2 cup Pure Maple Syrup

3 lbs brussel sprouts

1 tsp kosher salt

Heat oven to 450 degrees. Cut bacon crosswise into 1/2 inch strips, scatter on a large baking sheet and roast 10 minutes, stirring twice until fat is rendered and bacon is crisp.  Remove bacon to paper towel to drain. Trim and halve brussel sprouts lengthwise (if large quarter them). Toss brussel sprouts in bacon drippings with maple syrup and salt. Roast 20 minutes, tossing twice. Stir in bacon pieces and continue to roast 3 to 5 minutes until sprouts are golden and crisp tender. Serves 12

Thank you Dolores Desalvo , Nutritional Community Educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension

for compiling these recipes!

Maple Cream Cake

2 1/2 cups cake flour

3 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1/2 tsp vanilla

3/4 cup Pure Maple Syrup

1/2 cup milk

Maple Butter Frosting

1/3 cup Pure Maple Syrup

3 cups powdered sugar

4 Tbsp butter

1 egg white

dash salt

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease 8 x 12 loaf pan. A 10 x 10 corning dish was the perfect size also. Sift first 4 ingredients together; set aside. Cream butter with brown sugar. Add the next 4 ingredients. Add them alternately to the dry ingredients; beat until smooth. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. 

Frosting 

Combine syrup and butter in top of double boiler. When butter is melted, gradually add sugar. Place over hot water and let stand 10 minutes. Meanwhile beat one egg white stiff, with salt added. Fold maple mixture into egg white. When mixed well spread on cake. Garnish with chopped walnuts.  

Thanks again to Dolores Desalvo!