Recipe - Lightened Maple Syrup

4 cup Pure maple syrup
5 One half cup Water
6 tablespoon Kuzu or cornstarch

In a 3quart saucepan, mix maple syrup with 4One half cups water and bring to a
simmer.

In a small bowl, mix remaining one cup of water with kuzu.

Remove syrup from heat and vigorously whisk kuzu mixture into syrup.

Return mixture to heat and simmer for about 5 minutes to thicken.

Serve warm or at room temperature. Refrigerate unused portion.

makes 9 cups

Per One fourth cup: 93 cal, 23 g prot, 5 g sod, 1 g carb, 0 g fat, 0 mg chol, 10
mg calcium

HINT: Arrowroot should not replace kuzu in this recipe because it may
produce a gelatinous effect.

* Source: Chef Ron Pickarski, Vegetarian Gourmet (Autumn 1993) * Typed for
you by Karen Mintzias

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