Homemade Pancake Syrup

Trying to cut corn syrup out of our diet... so I have found a wonderful pancake syrup recipe and I thought I would share it all with you.

2 cups water

4 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. maple flavouring
1/4 tstp. vanilla flavouring

Directions:

1. Bring water to a boil.
2. Add sugar.
3. Boil for one minute.
4. Cool and add flavoring. (do not add before it is off the heat as the flavouring with boil off)

I save the bottles to put it in once it cools!

Another recipe:

Hot Buttermilk Syrup

1 cup sugar (I generally use a bit less)
2 TBS buttermilk powder
1/8 tsp baking soda, scant
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup water
1 tsp vanilla

Whisk together dry ingredients (including butter milk powder). In saucepan, bring butter and water to a boil. Pour dry ingredients into saucepan, stirring constantly. Bring back to boil and stir for a minute or two. Take off heat and stir in vanilla. It will thicken as it cools.

Note: I was really skeptical of "making" syrup before I tried these two recipes. But, we LOVE them at my house! You can also substitute 1/2 cup real butter milk instead of the 2 TBS buttermilk powder and 1/2 cup water, if you wish.

Enchiladas Sauce recipe

On Sunday before church Martha was discussing enchiladas sauce and let us know about a wonderful and easy recipe that she got from Margaret (also from our church) and how she would never use store bought again. Not to mention the price of store bought... so here is the recipe...

Enchiladas Sauce

6 cups water
6 tbsp. chili powder
6 tbsp. paprika
chop onion fine (one)

1. Bring to a boil and simmer for one hour
2. thicken with cornstarch to desired consistency

* the can be frozen to use at a later time or stored in the fridge for a month