FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS a

THE MAPLE SYRUP + MAPLE TOFFEE CA AMP

100% ey MAPLE SYRUP

HOW AND WHEN IS MAPLE SYRUP MADE? ~~ Or two taps per season,
100% Pure Maple Syrup is a true delicacy of nature, made

entirely from the sap of northern sugar maple trees. Gathered in WHAT IS MAPLE TOFFEE? -
early Spring (late February to April) while the snow is stillin Called maple toffee in English-speaking Canada, tire d'érable in
the woods. Conditions must be ideal with temperatures rising | French-speaking Canada, and sugar on snow in the United

into the 40’s (F) during the day and dropping below the States; it is a confection made by boiling maple sap past the
freezing point at night. The sap is still boiled down over point where it would form maple syrup but not so long that it
roaring, wood fires. America's first settlers learned the process becomes maple butter or maple sugar. It is part of traditional
from the Native Americans who collected sap in hollowed-out culture in Quebec and northern New England. It is most often
logs and steamed away the water by dropping in hot stones. prepared and eaten alongside the making of maple syrup at a

sugar house or cabane 4 sucre.
CAN ALL MAPLE TREES PRODUCE SYRUP?

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

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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 tapped, and most trees can have one

Pour le meilleur
divertissement de
l'année...
Visitez le festival annuel as
Sucre d'Erable!

du 21-25 février au parc
Beban.

Présenté par I'Association
Francophone de Nanaimo.
Entrée par donation jusqu’a
17h30 (don suggeré de $2)

Wake up with the irresistibly delicious taste
of an Egg McMuffin. Made fresh for you with
a Canada Grade A Large egg — nothing else
says good morning quite like it.

Ron CANTELON
MLA Nanaimo-Parksville

Nanaimo: 250.729.7041
Parksville:250.951.6018
ron.cantelon.mla@leg.bc.ca
www.roncantelonmla.bc.ca

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