Over the past few weeks, the supermarkets have generously sent me assorted pancakes and toppings to review. I’m all pancaked out now, so I think I’ll have a curry for dinner tomorrow.
Anyway, amongst these products was a new maple syrup from Aldi. Priced at €3.99 for 250mls, it’s slightly cheaper than Tesco’s maple syrup and significantly cheaper than Jakeman’s Canadian maple syrup (€6.49 for 330mls in Superquinn). Watch out for that sickly sweet “maple-flavoured” syrup; you have to use the real stuff.
I wasn’t remotely surprised to find that Aldi’s maple syrup is very good. It’s medium grade, meaning that the maple flavour is relatively pronounced. It went very well with vanilla ice-cream, but maple syrup is also fantastic with bacon. My friend Cat also makes a delicious salad dressing with maple syrup; I’ll ask her for the recipe and update this post later.
Click here to see all current specials at Aldi.
Sunday 1 July, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Hi found your article interesting, Could you tell me does this maple syrup contain HCFS (high fructose corn syrup)?
Michael
Tuesday 21 August, 2012 at 5:28 am
I was so confused about what to buy, but this makes it undrsetnaadble.