What are you Baking the week of December 6, 2020?

[skeptic7]

cwcdesign; The maple pecan biscotti sound great. Does it use maple syrup? Where did you get the recipe.

Aaronatthedoublef; Congratulations on a successful donut day.

Wish me luck. I'm going to try KABC oatmeal maple bread and use whole wheat flour.

[BakerAunt]

A note on the oil-based Lucia buns. They are good, but without the butter to carry the flavor, and to provide additional flavor and tenderness, the taste is somewhat flat. I will go back, next year to using half butter and half oil. I wanted to give the oil-based a try because there are other Christmas treats that I want to bake and consume.

[cwcdesign]

It does use maple syrup - it’s the maple walnut biscotti recipe from KABC. I just prefer pecans to walnuts and we usually have them on hand. I sprinkled KABC sparkling sugar on top since I didn’t have maple sugar and I used vanilla extract instead of maple - same reason

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by cwcdesign.

[BakerAunt]

Gee, someone in Georgia usually has pecans on hand? 🙂

[cwcdesign]

But even when I lived in Massachusetts, I preferred pecans and had them on hand there as well.

Will made a really good sweet potato soup from HBH. It wasn’t sweet and was light with the use of vegetable stock and coconut milk. The recipe called for a pesto with kale in it. Will just chopped up fresh kale (we like dinosaur kale) and we sprinkled it in so it wilted.

[Italiancook]

I don't know if they still carry it, but I have seen maple sugar in a Vermont Country Store catalog, in case anyone is looking for a source. My dear grandmother refused to buy me store-bought maple syrup. She made her own. I have no idea what she put in it, but I couldn't abide the stuff. She made the world's best pancakes and ruined them with the homemade syrup. It was the only thing she ever made that I didn't like. I hated to disappoint her, because she stood over the stove stirring the concoction.

[BakerAunt]

Italian Cook: I remember seeing recipes for "homemade maple syrup." Yuk.

I bought maple sugar from Vermont Country Store earlier this year when King Arthur announced being sold out for the season.

CWCdesign--The only thing I miss about where we lived in Texas was that we had our own pecan tree.

[cwcdesign]

Italiancook, Log Cabin is maple-flavored syrup as I believer Mrs. Butterworth's is as well. Basically they add maple flavoring to corn and other syrups. It's what we had in the house because it was cheap. Real maple syrup was always a treat.

Log Cabin was once real maple syrup:
"Towle’s Log Cabin Syrup was started in 1888 by a St. Paul, Minnesota grocer named Patrick J. Towle. Originally, Towle’s Log Cabin Syrup had strong ties to the maple industry and produced pure Maple syrup in their tins. By the 1900s Towle had three lines of syrup: a pure maple syrup, a blended recipe of cane sugar and maple called “Camp Syrup”, which were considered much more popular, and from 1904 to 1909 there was also a third syrup called Towle’s Log Cabin Penoche Syrup which was a maple flavored and maple colored syrup made from cane sugar and marketed for candy making. Today, Log Cabin no longer uses maple in their syrups at all." from BlackRockDesert.org

[Italiancook]

cwdesign, thanks for all the interesting information about Log Cabin. As a lifelong Log Cabin fan, I figured I was eating corn syrup, but had no clue about any of the other details you shared with us. Thanks for the education!

[aaronatthedoublef]

My mom used Log Cabin. She would sometimes also make her own which was usually either sugar or corn syrup in water, boiled down a bit. Mom probably had some kind of maple flavoring that she would add. We were three fast eating boys who may have noticed the difference but did not slow down enough to care.

I made BA's crackers yesterday. We were going to start cookie making last weekend but a call came from the school that Violet had been exposed to someone with Covid-19. We won't start baking for others until we're all in the clear.

[cwcdesign]

Aaron, I hope you all stay safe!

[BakerAunt]

Best Wishes for an uneventful quarantine period, Aaron. I hope that all of you stay well.

[Joan Simpson]

Aaron I'm hoping you all aren't going to get the virus.

[skeptic7]

Aaron;
I hope none of your family comes down sick and you don't go stir crazy in the next couple of weeks.

I love Pecans but am only using them now for very special items since they are more expensive than walnuts or almonds.

[aaronatthedoublef]

Thanks everyone. I am cautiously optimistic.

Atlas Obscura has a St. Lucia's Day baking story today!

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