Author sheepishly raises his hand. If you want practical solutions, skip the next three sections. All you lab goggle types, follow me. What do we mean when we say maple syrup has gone bad?
We should distinguish between stale and spoiled. Nuts can go stale; so can bread. Stale food is safe but has gone dry or lost its flavor. If made to modern standards and properly graded, its flavor will not change perceptibly for years and years. Non-living contamination would include minerals, wood chips, dust or ash. But these are filtered out in any self-respecting sugarhouse a fun term for a maple syrup operation.
Living contamination, on the other hand, can develop over time in an opened bottle. Most of these living creatures love moisture, sunlight and warmth. They float in from the air. They include bacteria, yeast or mold. The stuff pretty much never goes bad go figure. Sugar has long been used as a preservative.
In fact, ancient Greeks lovingly mixed quince with honey and packed it tightly into jars that could keep for a long time in a cellar. To distill the dense science, microbes need water more than they love sugar. And sugar is soluble, in essence binding up the water molecules. When syrup is boiled, concentrating its sugars, its water content is essentially unavailable to microbes.
In an opened bottle of maple syrup, its sugar content works against it, attracting moisture from the air, which ends up pooling on the surface, once again available to microbes. It's safe to eat for "an indefinite period of time regardless of whether it has been opened," according to Karo, which manufactures both a pancake syrup and several types of corn syrup.
You don't have to store pancake syrup in the fridge, though. Room temperature is just fine, but if you're buying the stuff that comes from a tree, be sure to keep it in the fridge to avoid any moldy situations. Extra Crispy Logo. Does Syrup Ever Go Bad? Save Pin FB More. By Maxine Builder and Maxine Builder. View Series. All rights reserved. By law, a gallon of pure maple syrup weighs eleven pounds. Maple syrup is a good substitute for sugar. It can be substituted for sugar in cooking by substituting one cup of maple syrup for one cup of sugar.
For each cup of maple syrup substituted, the liquid in the recipe must be reduced by three tablespoons to make up for the extra liquid in the maple syrup. Maple sugar can be substituted for white sugar in equal parts. In other words, substitute one cup of maple sugar for one cup of white sugar. Maple syrup and maple sugar are less refined than white sugar so that maple syrup has more minerals and antioxidants than white sugar that may be considered a health benefit.
Keeping in mind that maple syrup has just as much sugar as white cane sugar, remember that it also imparts a delicious flavor to cooked and baked foods that cannot be achieved by using sugar! One tablespoon of maple syrup contains 42 mg of potassium.
Not only does maple syrup contain potassium, but it also contains calcium, zinc, manganese, magnesium, and iron. The darker the maple syrup, the more of these minerals it contains. Maple syrup also contains trace amounts of vitamins B1, B2, B5, B6, biotin and folic acid.
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