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Baked Eggs in Maple Toast Cups
This special breakfast is reminiscent of the sugarmakers' custom of boiling an egg in maple syrup in the evaporator. The syrup crisps the toasts and lends a hint of sweetness, and the eggs are served freestanding in the toast cups. The recipe comes form my well-thumbed copy of The Official Vermont Maple Cookbook, a pamphlet published by the Vermont Department of Agriculture.
3 tablespoons butter, plus more for greasing muffin cups
3 tablespoons maple syrup
6 slices sandwich bread, crusts removed
3 slices bacon, cooked until crisp, crumbled
6 large eggs
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Butter 6 large muffin cups. In a small saucepan, melt butter and add syrup. Flatten bread with a rolling pin. Brush it with syrup mixture and pat slices into prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle bacon bits into bottom of each bread-lined cup. Break an egg into each cup, add salt and pepper to taste and bake for approximately 15 minutes, or until eggs are set. Run a knife around sides of muffin cups to loosen bread and gently lift out toast cups. Serve immediately.
Serves 3 to 6
The big maples finally started getting some color. That was yesterday. Today it's raining again, and all that was green on the maples is now yellow. This has been a strange October! I have the feeling I'd better get out there again with the camera, or before you know it, all the leaves will have fallen.
Our deck was put together over a 6 month span with 6 different kinds of wood. The base is oak,the floor is pecan,the posts and rail are cedar with regular pine for the under carrage,and the "natural look" limbs in between is a mixture of Hickory and maple..
I tiptoed around SpringHill on a misty October morning and captured muted colors against a pale blue sky. You'll find interior images, too, reflecting those same dusky hues. There's no place like Michigan in autumn!
We have three maple trees in our yard. One has green leaves that turn bright yellow in autumn. The one shown in this photo has dark red leaves that turn this lighter red/orange colour in autumn.
The other, we believe to be a cross between the first two. We discovered it many years ago as a tiny sapling growing against the fence between our driveway and our sideyard, midway between the first two trees. We transplanted it into the backyard and its leaves are a red-tinged green turning an orange-tinged yellow in autumn.
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