Here’s a wonderful addition to your favourite punch, sober cocktail, whiskey old-fashioned, or to use as a soak for sweet loaves and cakes. I also favour it as a lighter addition to pancakes and waffles!

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Spiced Maple Simple Syrup

Servings: 1 Cup

Ingredients

• ½ Cup Pure Maple Syrup
• ½ Cup Water
• 2 Cinnamon Sticks
• 6-8 Cardamom Pods
• 4-6 Allspice Berries
• 1 Large Orange Peel

Instructions

• Place all ingredients in a small saucepan.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Reduce heat to a low simmer and allow to simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes.
  
• Remove from heat and cool completely.
• Strain the simple syrup into a clean container, discarding the spices and peel.
• Add ¼ oz to a standard cocktail, ½ to 1 oz to a juice or punch, or brush the simple syrup over a loaf cake previously punctured with toothpicks or over a jelly roll cake. Also tastes wonderful as an addition to yogurt and fruit or over pancakes.
• Refrigerate in a sealed container for 2 to 3 weeks.