http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/mock-maple-syrup/
We had this posted a long time back but could not find it on a search. Found it on another site so I thought I would put it here for all of us.
Mock Maple syrup
Peel 6 medium sized potatoes. Boil these uncovered in 2 cups of water until but one cup of fluid remains. Remove the vegetables for use any way you want. Stirring the liquid until it reaches the boiling point again, slowly add one cup of white sugar and one cup of brown sugar. Once this has entirely dissolved, take the pan off the heat to cool slowly.
… But bottle the syrup and tuck it away in a cabinet for several days to mature. Taste it again at the end of that time and see if you are not pleasantly amazed.
We were still amazed that morning. The flavor was almost beyond comparison, a phantom bouquet that haunted our taste buds; something to be savored very deliberately and lingeringly. It tasted to us now exactly like prime maple syrup, and we’d both been reared in maple syrup country.
–from the book Wilderness Wife, by Bradford and Vena Angier
Note do not add any salt to the water when cooking the potatoes. Also allow the water to cool then pore off the 1-cup of water after it has cooled and any little pieces of potato have settled it will make for clearer syrup. Add the sugar reheat to dissolve the sugar. Then bottle it in a sterilized jar and seal. The longer this sets the better the flavor. Leave it sit at least 5 days.
Lele