Making Maple Sugar
This turns maple syrup into granulated sugar. Sweet, simple, and useful.
Great for baking.
✨ Comment RECIPE and I’ll send it to you. ✨
Sprinkle or bake with it? 😁👇
https://www.binkysculinarycarnival.com/how-to-make-maple-sugar/
#maplesugar
Making Maple Sugar
This turns maple syrup into granulated sugar. Sweet, simple, and useful.
Great for baking.
✨ Comment RECIPE and I’ll send it to you. ✨
Sprinkle or bake with it? 😁👇
https://www.binkysculinarycarnival.com/how-to-make-maple-sugar/
For completeness, since I posted about it Thursday, I thought I'd pass along a couple of photos from the open house Friday at western Wisconsin's Roth Sugar Bush.
The February thaw had many asking, "Are you tapping yet?"
Our friends the trees.
Historic photo from 2021. Who knows where the time goes?
Yes, before you object, "sugar" is a verb.
https://hunterdon.njaes.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Maple-Sugaring.pdf
I don't sugar myself, but that won't stop me traveling over the river and through the woods to my home state of Wisconsin this week to take in the Roth Sugar Bush OPEN HOUSE.
Industrial-scale maple sugar equipment and techniques on offer.
Plus, the term "sugar bush" has always sounded slightly risqué, or endearing, depending on your outlook.
Harbinger of Spring!
I have to tell you, though, that boiling sap for maple syrup is one of the dullest activities my friends have ever induced me to participate in. You have been warned.
National Maple Syrup Day.
#maplesyrup #maple #breakfast #pancakes #shoplocal #foodie #supportlocal #coffee #brunch #cinnamon #food #organic #maplesyrupseason #syrup #foodporn #maplesugar #vegan #lunch #waffles #farmlife #bacon #vermont #homemade #farmtotable #maplecream #familyowned #barrelaged #sustainable #delicious #gradea
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/national-maple-syrup-day/
Dear Friends,
🍁 It's maple sugaring time. I worked it once during college break upstate New York not far from the 🇨🇦 border. Buckets of sap into a tank hauled by a tractor to the sugar shack for boiling.
This is a good weekend trip for #NewYorkCity folk this and next weekend.
https://www.morningagclips.com/maple-magic-awaits-dont-miss-these-sweet-weekends/
If you find yourself rolling around western Wisconsin, a fun stop is this sugar bush outfit near Cadott (greater Chippewa Falls).
They have all manner of supplies and equipment for the hobbyist or the professional tapper of maple trees. Fun gadgets, gleaming stainless steel, friendly people.
It's a pretty big industry.
https://www.rothsugarbush.com/
Today’s #KitchenWitch adventures : Banana Foster Milles Crepe cake. For my mother’s birthday celebration tomorrow. #glutenFree #dairyFree #mapleSugar #crepes made with oat, chick pea and rice flours and eggs, whipped coconut cream filling.
#baking #bananas
In parts of the northern USA and lots of spots in Canada, this time of the year is Maple Sugar season filled with lots of hard work and hoping for ideal weather conditions. If you’d like a terrific short intro to the process along with some fabulous old photos, see @EllieK and @stevenkennard slideshow presentation!
#MapleSugar https://mstdn.ca/@EllieK/112196213564565193
My 2024 maple sugaring season has ended and we got 30 liters of sap. There were 2 additional liters that I tossed because it had soured and big, meaty moths had drowned in it. I harvested 36 liters in 2023.
I tapped the tree 2/1 and took the bucket down on 3/17. The height of the flow was 2/3 to 2/10.
After boiling we ended up with a little over 1.5 pints of syrup. Lots of work for not a lot of syrup which explains why this stuff is so expensive!
Entry 3
Just 3.5 liters of sap compared to the 8 I got last week. Goes to show how important the temps are for good sap flow.
With the woodstove running we began boiling last weeks sap. We filter it, so bits of wood and any drunken bugs are removed. Then onto the woodstove. You see water evaporating and the sap getting darker. We boil each batch about 75% and store until the season nears the end, then finish it off.
See you next Monday!
#MapleSugar #MapleSugaringMonday #nature #MapleSyrup
Entry 2
(I swear this isn’t an ad for Polar seltzer)
It’s been 1 full week since we tapped our Sugar Maple. It started slow but as the temps warmed up, the sap began to flow. Nights in the 20s combined with days in the 40s is ideal.
The tree produced 8 liters. We keep the sap in the refrigerator until the weather is cold enough to run the woodstove, then start boiling it down on top of the stove! (Pictures next week.)
Tapped our Sugar Maple this weekend. I remember when, due to much colder temps, I wouldn’t until late February. But now the sap is usually running by late January, if not earlier. Last year we collected 35 liters of sap which, after boiling down, produced a quart of syrup.
Looking at the upcoming forecast it should be a good week for sap flow.
#MapleSugar #SugarMaple #Sugaring #ClimateChange #MapleSugaringMonday
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