Saturday, March 29, 2008

Five-Minute Homemade Pancake Syrup


Donnie and I don’t eat pancakes or waffles all that often, so it doesn’t make sense for us to keep syrup on hand. It would probably take us years to finish a bottle—and who wants to eat three-year-old pancake syrup?

Instead, on those infrequent occasions when we do want some syrup, we make our own. It’s quick, easy, frugal, and delicious. I like it on pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, biscuits, or even ice cream. Best of all, the recipe I use takes fewer than five minutes to prepare!

Leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator for about a month. Donnie and I store ours in an old jam jar, which makes pouring a breeze. This syrup is delicious served warm, room temperature, or cool.

Brown-Sugar Pancake Syrup

½ cup brown sugar
1 cup water
1 tablespoon butter
Pinch of salt

Bring all ingredients to a rolling boil. Remove from heat, and let syrup sit three to five minutes before serving.

7 comments:

Kim said...

How smart, we rarely eat syrup too, I'd much rather store brown sugar than sticky old syrup.

Magpie said...

Yum, great idea. I took a peek around too and love your site :)

Grandmother Wren said...

Very interesting - thank you.
My husband mentioned once that his mother used to make her own pancake syrup, but she used corn syrup as a base. I have to admit he said he didn't care for it - it was more of an economic necessity at the time.
Your recipe sounds much more tasty - I'm going to give it a try.

Rachel said...

I was looking for such a recipe and this was great! Very easy and quick, with a very good taste. Thank you!!!

CupcakeCatie said...

i was going to make some French toast but realized we had no syrup! but luckily i came across your super easy recipe, thank you! :)

Tina BC said...

Thanks. I was looking for a simple recipe that did not use corn syrup or artificial flavorings.

Anonymous said...

Corn syrup isn't artificial and is no worse for you than sugar.. and store bought corn syrup isn't even high fructose.. but this recipe seems lovely and I will definately try it.