Brothers Ethan and Seth spend a long day helping their parents gather sap and make maple syrup when March brings the first hint of spring to their New England farm. Includes a legend of how Native Americans first began to make and use maple syrup.
Laura is delighted when a soft, thick snow falls in late spring in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. A late snow helps the trees make more sap for maple syrup, and maple syrup means sweet sugar cakes and sticky fingers for Laura!
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Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.
In the most widespread version , Robert M. Green of Philadelphia was operating a soda fountain at the 1874 semicentennial exhibition of the Franklin Institute when he ran out of cream . He went out and bought some ice cream , planning ...
Sugaring time always seems to rekindle old friendships as neighbors chat while the sap boils . The sight of steam rising in the woods and the smell of maple wafting across the valley draws people to the source where a friendly welcome ...
But Bruce had also enjoyed speculating during the wild swings in price of past years, and he, like many others, was a critic of the Federation pricing structure, which, he claimed, was out of touch with the marketplace.
Betty Ann Lockhart introduces the origins of the "Flavor of Vermont," the tools of the sugaring trade and the personalities who launched maple sugar to world fame.
Properly wild birds are all types of wild duck, grouse, pigeon, woodcock and snipe. In America, the most common type of game bird is the bobwhite quail, especially in the South. Often it is propagated in captivity and released on ...
When a young boy spends his spring vacation at his grandfather's farm during sugaring season, he finds the hard work involved in making maple syrup is worth the effort when he tastes the fresh syrup on his pancakes. Reprint.
What you'll find in this book: - An overview of why maple syrup is better than refined sugar in just about every way - Detailed advice for how to substitute maple syrup for refined sugar in every recipe you come across Case by case advice ...