Comments on: Maple Syrup vs. Sorghum Syrup

By: MaidMirawyn

MaidMirawyn — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:31:31 +0000

I’m from the South, and we almost never used maple syrup when I was a kid. Though I’m a native Atlantan, my parents both grew up in South Georgia, so we saw a lot of cane syrup and some sorghum at my grandparents. (And Golden Griddle pancake syrup.)

My favorite use for sorghum is good ol’ Southern biscuits, which my husband makes. I’ve recently begun making maple buttermilk bread, and since I found some local North Georgia sorghum just last week, I plan to try mixing sorghum and maple on the next batch. I’ll try to remember to let y’all know how it goes.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:55:44 +0000

It can also be mixed in a solution of 10:1 water to sorghum and it will remove rust from metals if you soak it for a couple of days

By: Preppy Pink Crocodile

Preppy Pink Crocodile — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:22:57 +0000

Thanks for this. Someone gave me a bottle of sorghum in a swap over a year ago and I have yet to figure out what to do with it. I am determined to use it or lose it as the saying goes. I think I might try to come up with a bbq pork recipe for my crockpot using this after your suggestions.

By: Daun

Daun — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:59:35 +0000

I grew up here in Florida eating sorghum with butter and peanut butter; mixed by mashing with a fork on your plate while the bread is being toasted. This was dessert! We didn’t measure and I sometimes had difficulty getting the portions to taste like daddy’s…(ah, sweet memories of daddy mixing each plate for my sisters and I while mama toast the bread). Simple pleasures are the best of memories.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:40:20 +0000

We had tried the sorghum last year, but my kids didn’t like the flavor. So we went back to maple syrup. The price difference at the local Piggly Wiggly wasn’t that noticable. So we stick to real maple syrup for pancakes, honey for sweetening and molassis for making home made graham crackers.

Blessings, Beth Ann

By: Missy

Missy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:12:53 +0000

Great tip, thanks. I always have maple extract so I might try and flavor some for pancakes!

By: Samara Root

Samara Root — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:56:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip Lindsay! I couldn’t believe the price increase @ Trader Joe’s!
I love sorghum…it tastes so good…but I have never thought of replacing maple syrup with sorghum…I’ll try it now though!

Let us know how the campout went.
Samara

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:54:41 +0000

THANK YOU!!! I had switched, with much sadness, from Maple syrup to Log Cabin, or whatever syrup was at the store, because of the price. But I can’t bring myself to serve it. Thank Heavens I came across this, and thank you for posting it. I just thought it was one of those things I’d have to give up as prices rise (there have been many things…)

Being a Southerner, I never knew about Maple Syrup until I was an adult, but I got hooked. Just in time for it to be far too expensive for us to afford. We have local cane boils around here all the time, and I often wondered about cane syrup instead. But now I know – sorghum!!

I’m am SO trying it out.

By: Lanette

Lanette — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:30:55 +0000

FYI – Half-gallon jugs of grade A maple syrup are on sale at Costco for $9.97, after jumping around between $15 to $21 for the past year. They’re in #7 plastic jugs, though, for those of you who avoid that. We’re still waffling about plastic and bought our first maple syrup in a year.

By: Brenda@CoffeeTeaBooks&Me

Brenda@CoffeeTeaBooks&Me — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:41:04 +0000

I grew up with mom using sorghum. I don’t remember ever using real maple syrup until I married. It was either real sorghum or Aunt Jemima.

Mom always mixed it with room temperature butter before using on pancakes and such. (Although we lived in the Midwest, she was from Kentucky.)