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100% PuRE MAPLE Syrup

HOW AND WHEN IS MAPLE We
SYRUPMADE?

100% Pure Maple Syrup is a
true delicacy of nature, made ©
entirely from the sap of northern
sugar maple trees. Gathered in
early Spring (late February to
April) while the snow is still in
the woods. Conditions must be
ideal with temperatures rising into the 40’s (F) during the day
and dropping below the freezing point at night. The sap is still
boiled down over roaring, wood fires. America's first settlers
learned the process from the Native Americans who collected
sap in hollowed-out logs and steamed away’ Hic: water by -;=.-
dropping in hot stones. ae Rae

CAN ALL MAPLETREES PRODUCE SYRUP? ae te

There are over 100 varieties. But only the Sugar Maple (Acer”
saccharum) has the high concentration of natural sugar to
produce maple syrup.

DOES IT REALLY TAKE A LOT OF SAP TO MAKE A LITTLE SYRUP?

It takes up to 40 gallons of sap to produce just one gallon of |
pure and natural maple syrup.

DOES TAPPING HARM THE MAPLE
TREES?

Proper tapping does not harm
the tree, and the amount of sap
taken from the tree is a mere
fraction of the volume of sap in
the tree on any given day. Trees
must be about a foot in
diameter before they can be
Publisher Lesley Lorenz proudly " tapped, and most trees can have
: one or two taps per season.

supports the Maple Sugar

Festival and commends th i WHAT IS MAPLE TOFFEE?

Called maple toffee in ‘English-
Association Des Francophon speaking Canada, tire d'érable

: | in French-speaking Canada,
and sugar on snow in the
influence in our community United States, it isa confection
made by boiling maple sap past
the point where it would form
maple syrup but not so long
that it becomes maple butter or
maple sugar. It is part of
traditional culture in Quebec
and northern New England. It
is most often prepared and
eaten alongside the making of
maple syrup at a sugar house or
cabane a sucre.

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