#Snow maple candy how to
#Snow maple candy series

#Snow maple candy how to

In this Make your Own Butter Tutorial, (another of the Colonial Craft series) Sage will show you how to make your own butter to use in this recipe and anywhere else you use butter. (This is why you don’t turn on the heat yet). This acts as a buffer and prevents the soon to be boiling syrup from boiling over the edge. Use a little bit of butter around the inside edge of the pot you are using. 100% syrup works best so make sure you check the ingredient list. Measure two cups of 100% Maple syrup in a measuring cup and then pour the syrup into the pot. Video instructions How to Make Maple Cream Candy You probably have most of what you need to make maple cream candy around the house, but in case you do not, everything you need is in Sage’s Colonial Craft Supply Shoppe and can be accessed clicking on this photo. Quebec is the leading exporter of all things maple but Vermont, Maine, and other New England states contribute to the world supply of maple syrup (and maple cream candy). Where is maple cream candy produced?Ĭanada and America are the only countries who produce maple syrup for the world. All of these kept well and in the days before refrigeration, this was a great thing. Kids would take the syrup and drizzle it on snow for early spring snow cones.Ĭolonists not only made the syrup they would use for a year but also maple sugar and maple cream candy. They would get together as large families and communities to harvest the sap from trees and make what they called a Sugar Shack.

The colonists called it maple water and it didn’t take them long to learn how to make syrup and other sweet maple treats. Tribes used the sap in a number of different foods they prepared and it was looked forward to every spring. The indigenous people had their own system for retrieving the sap from the maple trees and had a festival each spring under what they called The Sugar Moon.

History of maple cream candyĮarly American colonists learned about maple sap from the local Native Americans. It’s all natural and all yummy!!! And it’s surprisingly simple to make. Made straight from nature herself… sap from the maple tree. Maple cream candy is a sweet treat of springs yesteryear.

#Snow maple candy series

Colonial Craft Series What is maple cream candy? This craft requires use of a stove or heating element so an adult supervisor is strongly encouraged. How to make maple cream candy is part of the Colonial Craft series where kids (and adults) can literally ‘make history’.