Subj : Maple Syrple
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Jun 25 2025 12:21:17

Hi Dave,

 DD> Oh, I know they bring the mini-bottles of maple syrup with the
 DD> pancakes. I have a nice collection in my kitchen pantry. Some
 DD> friend/relatives like maple syrup so it works out.

 RH> I was raised on the real thing so that's my #1 choice for toppings.
 RH> When we got married, I converted Steve from Mrs. Butterworth's to
 RH> maple; it's been on our table for decades.

 DD> There are a lot of maple flavoured things out there and available to
 DD> eat. So, apparently, I'm in a minority of not liking the stuff.

Seems to be so, but then too, we can't all like the same things. Most
people like peanut butter but I have an extreme dislike of it. A lot of
people drink coffee but not so many (Americans) prefer tea, me being one
of the latter group.


 RH> Years ago when we were in Frankfurt, our pastor and his wife invited
 RH> Steve and me & another couple from church for dinner one night. As we
 RH> talked, found out the other gentleman had spent time in the Catskills.
 RH> When it came time for dessert, the pastor's wife went into the kitchen
 RH> to prepare what she called "a special treat". She brought out small
 RH> dishes of vanilla ice cream drizzled with maple syrup. Tom, Steve and I
 RH> told her that we were very familiar with maple syrup, and how we were.
 RH> We had a good laugh over that one.

 DD> I do have, just up I-55 (Route 66 too) a maple sirup (their spelling)
 DD> grove and facility that is on the National Register of Historic
 DD> Places.

 DD> https://www.theroute-66.com/funks-grove.html

 DD> I've made the stop and the tour. But none of my souvenirs involve
 DD> syrup.

You have mentioned it to me several times. One of these days when we're
either going or coming from out west, we'll have to stop and pick up
some maple goodies. Looks like our church mission trips to VT are now a
thing of the past; we merged with another (larger) church a few months
ago. Their mission trip focus is on New Hampshire where a former member
couple is in mission work.

 DD> I prefer Karo for anthing requiring syrup as a sweetener. Or good
 old DD> sorghum  molasses which you'll likely never get around to as
 sorghum DD> is a close cousi of corn and would probably lay Steve low.

He can tolerate small amounts of sorgum. His mom had a small jug of it
several years ago when she and Dad were getting ready to move into
assisted living. We were helping her clean out the place where they had
been living and came across the jug; it came home with us as well as a
number of spices that went right into our freezer until the in use ones
had been used up. The sorgum is now gone, mostly into Steve's coffee.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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