If you ❤ pancakes, this is for you…

Noble Tahitian Vanilla Bean & Egyptian Chamomile Maple Syrup // Mikuni Wild Harvest // Quebec, Canada

Whether it’s a the morning after a summer bender, the first morning your girl crashed at the house or when he wanted you to chop wood for the next 12 hours, Dad seemed to be genetically predisposed to prepare breakfast at precisely the opportune time. Return the favor with a short stack doused with this matured maple syrup which packs all the complexities of a fine whiskey. To avoid being too sappy, this medium amber grade maple syrup from the heritage sugar shacks of Quebec is enriched by the buttery apple-like flavor of chamomile and the smooth finish of Tahitian Vanilla…

Stone Ground Buckwheat Pancake Mix // Burnt Cabins Grist Mill // Burnt Cabins, PA

There’s “The Old-Fashioned Way” then there’s genuinely stone grinding whole grain with original millstones since 1750. This family owned operation is one of the last grist mills in America still putting their nose to the grindstone to mill genuine buckwheat, considered a gluten-free, nutritional superfood. Aside from buckin’ up your health game, if you Flapjack up your morning routine, you may find yourself siding with the late American Journalist John Gunther’s notion that “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”

Blue Corn Piñon Pancakes Recipe Here

Blue Corn Piñon Pancake Mix // Sante Fe Culinaria // Santa Fe, NM
The Southwest’s busiest breakfast joints have been griddlin’ up Culinaria’s two-stepping blend of New Mexico’s iconic kernels — Hopi blue corn and piñon pine nuts — for twenty years. Now’s your chance to join the hoedown. Alas, the cakes ain’t turquoise — or even blue — but, sweet and nutty with a hearty chew, they still have all the spirit of the southwest. Whip a cup of mix, a half-cup of milk, an egg, and a glug of oil until barroom dance floor–smooth (that is, *just* lump-free enough). Then ladle on a skillet or pour into an iron until the edges bubble, and serve with fresh fruit and, no yankee tree-tappers here, agave cactus nectar.

Hazelnut Pancakes with Bourbon Maple Glazed Apples Recipe Here

100% Pure Vermont Maple Syrup // The Syrup Shop // Burlington, VT

From the towering maples of third-generation Underhill Farms, nestled in the verdant shadow of Vermont’s Mount Mansfield, springs this heavenly elixir, glittering as gold and, we dare say, just as precious. Still, that doesn’t stop us from drizzling with abandon over oatmeal or grits, mixing into morning chai, slurping transmogrific thimblefuls straight from the bottle — if pressed — or, if we can labor longer over our morning meal, twisting it into a warming, winter’s dressing, like a hot toddy for your flapjacks: a slow saute of apple slices in butter, cinnamon, and a shot or two of bourbon, turned resplendent with a glug of syrup as they start to caramelize.

Hazelnut Pancake Mix // Freddy Guy Hazelnut Farm // Monmouth, OR

This mom-and-pop Willamette Valley farm, in the heart of hazelnut country, does the hard part for you, trundling tree-shaking harvesters and vacuum-on-wheels sweepers through 160 acres of some 20,000 trees, gathering hundreds of pounds of hazeln — er, filberts, in the local argot, and grinding them into everything from granola to pizza dough to this, our pancake-Sunday staple. All you do is add an egg and wait for the skillet to heat. A flip or two later and what you get is light and fluffy as a classic flapjack, with an undercurrent of earthy spice, the perfect balance to a hefty pour of syrup, and an extra pat of butter to brace against the morning’s chill.

Mikuni Wild Harvest // Bourbon Barrel Matured Maple Syrup // Quebec, CAN

For many a self respecting woodsman, packing whiskey and maple syrup was as essential as a bushy beard and body odor. Maker Tyler Gray brings these two burly staples together to create barrel aged greatness. He begins with procuring the highest quality Maple syrup from heritage sugar shacks in the ancient maple orchards of Quebec. The syrup is then matured in charred American oak barrels from Tuthilltown Distillery (New York’s first whiskey distillery since the age of Prohibition) and finished off with a nip of fine Tuthilltown bourbon.

Buttermilk Pancakes // Dancing Deer Co. // Boston, MA

Trust us, nothing will silence your extended family during the holidays like a stack of syrup soaked flapjacks. Helping you recreate the serenity of nature around the breakfast table, Dancing Deer’s old fashioned buttermilk recipe reminds us the only thing light and fluffy about early pioneers were their pancakes.

Drunken Monkey Jam // The Jam Stand // Brooklyn, NY

If a sun baked, Tommy Bahamas clad Dad was holding a scone instead of umbrella accented Mai-Tai, this jam would be on that scone. The talented ladies responsible for Brooklyn’s Jam Stand add a nosh of cane rum to a cleverly concocted base of banana and fresh lime juice. Use to top off your cakes or swap out for Grape Jelly in a PB & J.

Trees Knees Spicy Syrup // Bushwick Kitchen // Brooklyn, NY

While the “hot” in your go-to hot sauce might come from an honest-to-goodness pepper, the “sauce” part is often a slurry of vinegar, salt, and water, resigning it, if not to the processed foods aisle, then at least to the savory side of things. But thanks to a base of Catskill-harvested maple syrup, Trees Knees is a spicy-sweet switch hitter. Eggs? Pizza? Of course. But why not morning oatmeal? Iced coffee? Cocktails? Or, our favorite, a perfect bath for pan-fried brats, just pour over and simmer to glaze.

Raw Honeycomb Pecan Butter Recipe Here

Savannah Bee Co. // Raw Honeycomb // Savannah, GA

Boasting a bio and awards mantle that parallels the The Karate Kid Savannah Bee founder Ted Dennard boasts an unparalleled dedication to unique single-origin honey native to the South. Ted was a 12-year old boy on his father’s Coastal Georgia property when a battered old pickup carrying beehives rattled into his life. Luckily the truck was also carrying Roy Hightower, an elderly beekeeper who taught Dennard the sweet science. 100% edible, treat honeycomb as you would honey, but for a recipe that’s the bees knees: 1) Mix pecans, honeycomb and salted butter in a food processor 2) Turn out on plastic wrap, roll into a log and chill 3) Capp off a batch of hotcakes with a coin and your guest will surely be buzzin’.

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