A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans know that when the days grow warmer and the evenings stay cold, it's ...

Working with (hopefully) large quantities of syrup, adding more as the water boils off, the process can get messy, with boiled-over liquid and sticky residue left behind. Some operators will have a ...

It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New York shack where they produced syrup and other maple-flavored goods. “It was pretty rustic,” Wightman says, “with just ...

Forester and maple syrup expert Steven Roberge places a lid on a bucket collecting sap in his Peterborough backyard. It’s maple season in New Hampshire, and it’s not too late to become a maple ...

Although most of today’s sap is turned into syrup, those who tapped a tree in the 1800s did so to make maple sugar. Caribbean cane sugar was rare and expensive until after the Civil War. Maple sugar, ...

If not for maple syrup, March in Vermont would be all about mud season. Thank goodness that the grey days and muddy roads of ...

Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar maples, by boiling the sap to concentrate the sugar. According to the “Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America,” Native ...