Eight things to do with a bottle of bigleaf.
Our syrup is darker and rounder than East Coast maple, so it does its best work next to butter, pecans, salmon and soy. These are the eight Amy keeps coming back to.
Tested in the farm kitchen · Every recipe uses our own syrup · Nothing here takes more than an hour
If you’ve tasted our Bigleaf maple syrup, you know that it is different than most maple syrup. One of the most frequent questions we get asked is, “What do you use it for?” While some enjoy our syrup straight on their pancakes, we think it really shines when combined with complementary flavors. In the last four years, we have tested dozens of recipes with our dark, rich syrup, and here we have compiled a list of our favorites. We hope you enjoy making and tasting them for yourself.
Amy Caldwell, Bigfoot newsletter #5, March 2026
recipes
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bottles for the whole cookbook
Most recipes need a few tablespoons. Only the cookies and the pie ask for more than half a cup.
Baking, a spread and a pie
Where the syrup does the sweetening. The cookies and the butter are the two we get asked about most.
Maple Cookies
Soft, buttery, with the syrup doing the sweetening.
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Bigleaf Banana Bread
Four bananas, coconut oil and a quarter cup of syrup. Top with maple butter.
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Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
For banana bread, cinnamon rolls, or the cookies.
Maple Butter
Four ingredients, a hand mixer, ten minutes. It goes on the banana bread, on toast, on roasted vegetables, and it keeps in the fridge for weeks.
Spread · 4 ingredients · ½ cup syrup
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Maple Pecan Pie
Brown sugar, two-thirds of a cup of syrup and three cups of pecans.
Dinner: a glaze and two marinades
Syrup, soy, garlic and a little acid. None of these read as sweet on the plate.
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Salmon Maple Glaze
A whole side of salmon, syrup, Dijon and sesame oil. Eighteen minutes in the oven.
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Maple Balsamic Steak Marinade
Syrup, soy, balsamic and garlic. Thirty minutes is enough.
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Maple Teriyaki Chicken Marinade
Cubed chicken, soy, ginger and two tablespoons of syrup. Thicken the marinade for a sauce.
Tell us how it went.
Every recipe here started as someone’s experiment. If you have one of your own that works with bigleaf, we want it for the next newsletter.
Every recipe here was tested with our dark bigleaf syrup.
The 2026 run is sold out. The next run is bottled in spring 2027; we send one email the day it is ready.