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[eustacetilley]

mrbigstuff wrote:
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There is some kind of cultural Holy pact among pork, apples, and cloves maple syrup.

Eustace

you may not be a New Englander.

it really is great to cook some tasty pork sausages with apples in a skillet, teased with a little maple syrup, either in the sauce or in the sausage filling.
What you say is most welcome; I'm not a New Englander, unless spending a few formative years on Staten Island qualifies. Apples and pork are a united thing, in all their offspring.

There are some subtleties to Maple syrup. It is rather amazing how just enough changes things completely, and how much a little bit more ruins things entirely.
(I'm talking about the Real thing, where ounces are traded for dollars.)

Here is a recipe, (After all, this is supposed to be about Wintery recipes.)

Take a full handful of finely steel-cut oats and...

Eustace