Birch Recipes (select a category or search) — Birch Syrup

Touch up your roots! Root vegetables are tuberous veggies where the edible portion of the plant grows underground. This would include potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips, onion, garlic and yams to name a few.  These veggies generally have an inherent earthy sweetness to them that can either be enhanced with sweet spices and sauces or delightfully juxtaposed by savory spices, oils, and vinegars. Pure Birch Syrup, however, can lend semi-sweetness AND fruity tang which happens to taste delicious when layered with beets, carrots, parsnips and yams especially. This time we are going to keep things very, very simple to enable you to experiment...

Pecans grow on trees and birch syrup certainly does. Put the two together and you have one delicious set of companions. This scone recipe makes lovely puffy, light scones using a standard scone baking method. The secret to a great light scone is...

For some reason, our late mother used to insist that a good cup of tea could not be achieved unless we boiled the kettle twice before pouring the water into an already heated tea pot...An emerging trend are teas with flavored syrups added to lend dimension and enhance the natural essence of the tea itself.

It may be a play on baking terms but all kidding aside, any gingerbread recipe from cookies to muffins to loaves is ideally suited to Amber Birch Syrup. These cake loaves make great gifts for friends and family during the holidays and may be baked and frozen several months beforehand. Wrapped in festive parchment paper and adorned with a bow, these loaves are sure to impress.