Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Giveaway - The Sugar Shack

Here in Pennsylvania, the maple sugar season is drawing to a close.

But at my friend Flo's house in Michigan, the sap is still running.



Flo's children help collect and cook sap. In Flo's newest book, The Sugar Shack, her daughter Kenzie gives us a tour  through the woods and into the sugar shack explaining the process of turning sap into syrup. Full-color photos help those of us who've never watched the process to understand.

Flo includes facts about maple syrup at the end of the book and shares a few of her favorite recipes incorporating maple syrup. If you are a long time reader, you may have enjoyed Flo's wonderful coffee cake recipes.



Flo is giving away a copy of The Sugar Shack to a Home Joys reader. To enter the giveaway, please let a comment, give us your email address, and share your favorite way to enjoy maple syrup.

To order you own copy of The Sugar Shack, email florencejfox at gmail.com . Cost of one book is $8.99. Michigan readers pay 6% sales tax. Payment by check is preferred. All book orders will have free shipping until May 31, 2019.

You may also enjoy My First Deer Hunt in which Flo's son Laramie shares the story of bow hunting with his dad. Like The Sugar Shack, it is written from a child's perspective for children ages 4-7 and illustrated with full-color photos. Ordering information and price are the same for both books.

Giveaway will be open for one week and is open to readers with a US postal address. 

62 comments :

  1. Hi Gina!
    I love your blog! Wow! Maple sugar is a rare treat at our house... but we love it on pancakes. Also, my husband's grandma made maple cream, and it has become a staple at Miller Reunions as the aunts have continued the tradition.
    I would love to enter for the giveaway... My address is:
    2130 Gate 3 Rd. Paris TN. 38242 and my email is:
    rdmiller@emypeople.net Thanks! Darlene Miller

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  2. I don’t really like maple syrup, is that terrible? �� But my husband grew up on it and loves it on pancakes. Also the maple sugar candy!

    conroyandkatrina@gmail.com

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  3. My favorite way to enjoy maple syrup is over crispy waffles with lots of butter and syrup and whipped cream!! Mmmmm! Have a blessed day!! redoylyn@yahoo.com

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  4. My favorite way to enjoy maple syrup is very basic - I love it on pancakes and waffles!!! . . .But we also really like it on to of ice-cream that is on top of waffles!!!

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  5. . . . But even more than maple syrup, I find great encouragement reading blogs like yours, your daily faithfulness and trust in God been brighter to all out hearts! Thank you for sharing here . . . God bless you, Dear Girl!!!

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  6. One way I enjoy it is by drizzling it on top of Greek yogurt and granola.
    nrfaus2000@gmail.com

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  7. My favorite way to enjoy maple syrup is eating maple sugar candy and maple leaf cookies. Yum!
    Zuvers2009@yahoo.com

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  8. Like the honey from my hives, once you've had "real" maple syrup from the producer, you can't be happy with store bought. Love maple syrup on pancakes/waffles, and using it in baking.

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  9. We love it on pancakes and waffles and I also use it in quite a few recipes! Thanks for the giveaway. karenhuber79@gmail.com

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  10. Oh wow! Looks like a book my children would enjoy! My favorute way to use Maple syrup is on pankcakes of course!I also like to use it as a sweetner on different recipes like homemade icecream and barbeque sauces.-Krista Leister aaronkristaleister@gmail.com

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  11. Collecting sap and boiling it down, oh the memories of the year I taught in Michigan and helped with the process. I went back the next year to do more. I enjoy it on ice cream, pancakes, waffles. Thank you for your faithfulness in blogging. It is encouraging.

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  12. Oh yes my email is tmiller2056@gmail.com

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  13. Our favorite way to enjoy syrup is in yummy chocolate milk (cocoa powder, syrup, and vanilla extract in the mixer with milk)! We most frequently use it on pancakes though. :) What a fun book! betsywright06@hotmail.com

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  14. We love our Maple Syrup on waffles & pancakes! Maple cream is a special treat too that we have tried when visiting maple places in Northern PA. ~Keri jkcassel@gmail.com

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  15. Hi Gina! I enjoy your blog...I first read your writings in Keepers at Home then found you later here. May God bless and strengthen your family. Since I am from South Dakota, I suppose I know nothing of "real" maple syrup, but we enjoy the storeboughten kind on pancakes and in baked oatmeal. Julie

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  16. Maple syrup in icing makes a yummy cake topping. (maple syrup is a real treat at our house for anything - on waffles, in baked oatmeal etc) I love to win the book - to learn more about the process of collecting and making it.

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  17. Yes, I remember the yummy coffeecake series!
    We love dipping freshly deepfried donuts in maple syrup! Here in ON our friends are still collecting sap and making syrup...and maple sugar candy and taffy cones. My children love the latter two as well!

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    1. And now that we have a jug of fresh syrup here, my children are revealing more favorite ways; a son likes it with his breakfast sausage, another will put it on plain or Greek yogurt and granola. We also like it as a sweetener in our beverages, tea, coffee etc. And the usual, on pancakes, waffles, in baking. Thanks for the giveaway, and blessings to you and your family. You're in our prayers!

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  18. Maple syrup? yummy. I enjoy reading your blogs, Gina.
    Email me at friedeineden@gmail.com if you need my U.S. mailing address.

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  19. I love maple syrup on pancakes and french toast!

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  20. Love it with butter on pumpkin pancakes! jakah@verizon.net

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  21. My family enjoys maple syrup on pancakes, waffles, and baked oatmeal. I also use it for apple dumpling syrup. Yummy! We make our own maple syrup and have found creative ways to use it. God's blessings to you and yours.

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  22. We enjoy maple syrup on scrambled eggs, fried corn meal mush, French toast, etc. God continue to give you His courage for your journey! Praying for you!

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  23. Maple syrup...yummy- the best way is on pancakes.

    dejoybee@juno.com

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  24. At our house, we eat local, Maine maple syrup on pancakes and waffles. My husband has also been known to drizzle it on ice cream. Sorry; not a lot of creativity here! Our email is balmer1968@gmail.com. Thanks, and we pray often for your family.
    Phyllis Balmer

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  25. Maple syrup is my favorite topping for scrapple! And it's hard to beat on waffles and pancakes too. So much better than regular syrup.
    Krista Burkholder
    kristajb99@gmail.com

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  26. We love maple syrup on our waffles or to sweeten cooked oatmeal. I enjoy reading your blog, thank you for writing.

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  27. My new favorite way is to sweeten my homemade greek yogurt with it! I like it in Bread too... on pancakes... It's just good!
    I have fond memories of the time in school when we tapped the surrounding trees and collected the sap. Then after collecting it for awhile we cooked it in a big iron kettle in the basement of our church (which was our school) All of us children got to have a taste.
    brintbyers@pa.net

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  28. Maple syrup on pancakes and waffles, that's the best! I also add maple syrup to eggnog as a sweetener. We add maple syrup to our sons blender diet in order to get as many calories as possible in him.

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  29. Hello I love maple syrup on squash with butter . Please enter me in the giveaway mruggier0@aol.com

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  30. I use maple syrup often for sweetener, and one of our favorite ways to enjoy it is in Maple cream sauce poured over sour dough waffles. So very good! My email is rosannawitmer@gmail.com.

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  31. Maple syrup- what a treat. It's something we can't get here in Ukraine. But I have good memories of eating fresh waffles topped with ice cream and maple syrup at Grandma's while on furlough. anyahursh@gmail.com

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  32. I live overseas so currently it is precious stuff! Last night I drizzled a tiny bit over roasting pecans an ate them over a lettuce and strawberry salad. Lovely!
    Startears1213-at-Gmail.com

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  33. We love maple syrup on waffles, French toast, baked oatmeal and drizzled over vanilla ice cream.:) greeneyed65@gmail.com

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  34. As a child, we had a bottomless supply of real maple syrup, thanks to Grandpa’s woods. So in those days, we used it liberally —our pancakes became islands in syrupy lakes. But several things have changed since then. My current favorite way of using this liquid gold is to drizzle a teaspoon onto plain Greek yogurt and top it with berries. Skinny mama soon again. :-) johnandsaranolt@gmail.com

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  35. We also have been cooking our own maple syrup, it was our 1st season. So we learned alot of new stuff along the way! I love recipes using maple syrup, and we all enjoy it over breakfast foods!

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  36. We use maple syrup mostly on pancakes but my husband ,especially, thinks it's good on quite a few other things. Blessings to you as you walk this difficult journey! May God give you strength to face each day! janellelehman88@gmail.com

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  37. Wow look like a great book!:)
    Ah THM pancakes drizzled with Maple syrup!:)
    tina@zimmermanauto.biz

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  38. Wow! I didn't realize you were from Pennsylvania. For some reason, I thought you lived in Maryland. I miss the beautiful farmland there but not all the snow. :) I'm still praying for your husband.

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  39. My favorite thing about maple syrup....happy family times collecting sap & boiling down! We just had waffles with homemade syrup-yum! I also enjoy finding new recipes such as maple oatmeal cookies & maple glazed chicken. I used maple syrup in my last batch of yogurt, too! Rodnjeanie@juno dot com

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  40. Maple syrup is a treat here. We like it on pancakes, waffles, and also as a sweetener. The book looks very interesting. My email address is annam0932@gmail.com.

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  41. We like to use maple syrup in baked oatmeal instead of sugar - makes it healthier and is yummy too! nsmeyers11@ymail.com

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  42. I also live overseas....where maple syrup is a precious commodity.
    Maple syrup on waffles with peanut butter can't be beat!
    misslindakay@gmail.com

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  43. Good morning Gina! I've been praying for you all. I like my maple syrup straight from the bottle. I mean straight from the bottle on pancakes, waffles and homemade granola.

    Now you really don't think I would drink maple syrup straight from the bottle without a proper china teacup do you?😉
    coffeeteamama at gmail dot com

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  44. We love maple syrup and maple sugar on oatmeal and on fresh baked bread. Praying for you! Pam Laurie kslaurie58@yahoo.com

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  45. We like it on pancakes best! crystalzeiset@gmail.com

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  46. We have been collecting/boiling with our young children in MN. Such a fun family activity. The kids love riding behind the 4 wheeler in a sled as we go around the pasture collecting each day. We have mostly boxelder trees. The taste is delicious and it seems to run earlier than the maples but it is a higher ratio with less yield. emilymsmith@gmail.com

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  47. We LOVE maple syrup on oatmeal, pancakes, recipes, plain yogurt, shakes and anything that needs sweetening!

    kepasa09@gmail.com

    Kezia Park

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  48. Maple syrup and real cream in my coffee is easily one of my favorite ways to enjoy maple syrup.
    lindastoltzfus@gmail.com

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  49. It's definitely a very intriguing process! I love it as a pancake topping! tisha98@juno.com

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  50. I have a blueberry French toast recipe that has a bit of maple syrup in it, The recipe is basically a bread pudding and it is scrumptious! That is one way I use maple syrup, but my absolute favorite way to enjoy maple syrup is to pour it over buttered pancakes which have been cut into squares. I love when the sweet syrup soaks into each delicious bite of pancake. YUM!
    Thanks for the chance to win such a wonderful book. I so enjoy reading your blog, how you share the joys of raising your family, your adventures and activities. You are in my heart and prayers.

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  51. French toast!
    I’d love this book to read to my southern littles who know very little about how we get maple syrup!
    jeffkanagy86@gmail.com

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  52. Not entering the giveaway, but I wanted to let you know that I just came by from Linda at The Little Homestead. She told me about your husband. I just prayed for him and your family.
    Laura of Harvest Lane Cottage

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  53. We have been doing our own maple syrup for the last 5+ years. The first year our system was pretty primitive and the syrup had a smoked flavor. That was the best syrup ever, and I wish there was a way to boil efficiently over an open fire! We use a lot on pancakes and waffles, but I like baking with it too. It makes wonderful pecan pie and granola. lovinajoy79@gmail.com

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  54. I am a fairly new reader to your blog. You are the one who gotgme started on paperbackswap.com :) I am a teacher on sabbatical and I would love to win this book. I enjoy maple syrup on pancakes or to sweeten my iced coffee. You may email me at: rakuhns85@gmail.com.

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  55. We love it on pancakes! Mahmar@frontier.com

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  56. A couple of my favorite ways to use maple syrup is on pancakes/waffles and scrapple. But I love using it in coffee instead of sugar. It tastes so much better!
    krabigail98@yahoo.com

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  57. I love maple syrup on my mac n cheese! tonynwendy at att.net

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  58. Oooooh. Maple syrup is a nostalgic favorite of mine. I grew up in Michigan, and I can tell you that it is never better than taste-tested straight out of the evaporating pan. That would be with a spoon.

    But yes, on oatmeal pancakes, on waffles, in iced coffee- pass it please!

    I would love to win this book for my 4 year old son, to help me pass on the love even while we live in the south.

    Thanks for hosting this giveaway, Gina, Kenzie, and Flo.

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  59. On pancakes or waffles! lanitarhess@gmail.com

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  60. scrapple! I have some folks in this house who would love this book. Thanks for the opportunity.

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  61. We enjoy Maple Syrup but RARELY on pancakes. We particularly enjoy what used to be called 'B' grade, for the intense flavor. Now it's all 'A' grade. How dumb. Sure, we look for 'robust flavor' or some clue that we are not getting stuck with low vitamin/low flavor, but 'B' grade was the better way. We use maple syrup in smoothies where better health is the object.

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