Simple Pleasure: Maple Syrup

My simple pleasure for today is sweet. It's maple syrup.

Throughout New England at this time, one can see buckets attached to scores of maple trees. They are collecting the sweet sap that will be boiled down to make syrup.  If everyone could see the immense amount of work that goes into making maple syrup, there would be tremendous appreciation for the final product.

Can you imagine pancakes or French toast without maple syrup?  B-o-r-i-n-g.

How about the taste of maple nut ice-cream? It's creamy lusciousness that edges on the divine.

One more thing about this simple pleasure:  the supermarket bottled varieties of  "maple syrup"  pale pathetically to the "real thing."   The taste of fresh maple syrup, soaked into a pancake that has been spread with real butter,  has got to be one of the yummiest tastes around.

So there you have the sticky and sweet of today's simple pleasure: maple syrup.

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