This is a sponsored post on behalf of Uncle Bob’s Butter Country syrup and as always the thoughts and ideas in this post are my own.
Summer season in our house is a time for more leisurely breakfasts and weekends spent at the lake or on an early morning hike. Around June we always look forward to picking strawberries, the first Pacific Northwest berries we tend to see at local farms. Then through the summer come raspberries and blueberries and finally neighborhood blackberries. And all these berries mean breakfast pancakes, waffles, and crepes with yummy syrups. And lately in our house we’ve been using Uncle Bob’s Butter Country Syrup and I’m so glad they contacted me to try this syrup out.
Uncle Bob’s Butter Country Syrup flavors are made with buttermilk and this makes the syrup taste pretty dreamy without being too sweet. We have tried both the Original and Cinnamon Bun Syrups and they pair nicely with all the berries we’ve been picking. And if you’re in the Seattle area too I thought I’d share a few of our favorite local berry farms as well as some of the recipes we’ve been pairing with these syrups that we buy at our neighborhood Metropolitan Market. (You can also get them at Haggen stores in the Washington area too.)
Harvold Berry Farms
Harvold berry farm in Carnation is one of the closer farms to where we live and it had the best up to date Facebook page when I checked-it is so important to have a working and up to date Facebook or social media pages these days. This farm has U-Pick strawberries and raspberries with the strawberries usually starting mid-June and the raspberries starting in early July. We headed here from Snoqualmie Pass and it was about an hour each way. We picked for 30 minutes and got nearly 5 pounds of strawberries.
These local strawberries were perfect with Uncle Bob’s Cinnamon Bun Butter Country syrup and the New York Times Dutch Baby Pancake recipe that takes about 40 minutes to make. I omit the nutmeg in the recipe but follow everything else as best I can. We’ve made this now a bunch of times and it always turns out. Usually just one is enough for our family but on big hiking days we’ve splurged and made two.
We also tried the Cinnamon Bun Butter Country Syrup with the fresh local strawberries on top of vanilla ice cream, crushed graham crackers and a bit of whip cream and that was really delicious too. It just wasn’t very pretty and it was a really hot day and it disappeared really quickly so you won’t find any picture evidence.
Remlinger Farms
Remlinger Farms is a place the kids have loved since they were small. It’s where they rode their first roller coaster. And it’s just a genuinely fun place to take little kids near Seattle to have a fair-like atmosphere without the big crowds of a fair. But they are also known for their berries and you can pick strawberries, raspberries and pumpkins at Remlinger Farms at different times during the year. We were there most recently at the beginning of July and picked raspberries. No pups are allowed at the farm so I waited in the car with Scout while the guys in the family picked the berries. But we also enjoyed these raspberries with our favorite Dutch Baby pancake recipe. And used them in crepes as well. For crepes we really like a Fisher Crepe mix that we picked up at the grocery store and it’s been really easy to make. If I go for totally homemade I use a recipe from an old Fanny Farmer Cookbook.
Duris and Biringer Farms
We also often go to Duris Farms for berry picking because it is in Kent and one of the closest U-Pick farms to Seattle but we will probably miss this one this year. We also tried to go to Biringer Farms for the first time in a while-it’s often on our way back from Canada or Semiahmoo Resort but we were there too early and we might have to try this one another year as well.
Do you have a favorite Pacific Northwest Berry farm? And have you ever tried Uncle Bob’s Butter Country Syrup? (PS if you have any other breakfast ideas that we might try our syrup on please let me know below. )
Terumi Pong is a Seattle-based family travel writer and mom of twin teenage boys. She loves coffee and pastries, shopping local and looking for greener ways to live. She is also known as Scout’s mom (Scout is a 5ish pound little black yorkie-poo)