Pancakes!

What better thing to serve homemade maple syrup on than homemade pancakes!  (And if you have home raised bacon to serve on the side, you're very privileged indeed!)

If you don't all ready make pancakes from scratch, you should.  They are super simple, super cheap, and super delicious!  Most likely you have all the necessary ingredients in your cupboards right now.

Pancake mix is pretty much flour, baking powder, a bit of sugar and salt.  The rest (the 'liquid' ingredients) you add anyway, so why pay for a premixed box of dry ingredients when it only takes a very few minutes to measure out flour, etc from your own stash?

 Here's all you need for a small batch of pancakes, enough for 2-3 people:

1 egg, beaten
1 cup flour (all purpose, whole wheat, buckwheat, whatever your pleasure)
1 Tbsp sugar
3/4 cup milk
2 Tbsp veggie oil
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

Put all ingredients into a medium size bowl, and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened.  Over stirring will result in runny, thin pancakes.  Then pour by serving spoonfuls (or approx. 1/4 cup) onto a hot griddle (400 degrees).  Flip when tops show large bubbles.  Cook until bottoms are light golden brown.  Serve with lots of butter and maple syrup. 

YUM!

The recipe is easily double, tripled, quadrupled for however many people you will be serving.  When all four kids were still at home, I usually tripled the recipe, and had just a few pancakes leftover.  Leftover pancakes can be wrapped in foil and put into the freezer for quick microwavable breakfasts on school days.