Posted by Ultradog MN on December 25, 2010 at 22:48:21 from (70.57.147.160):
In Reply to: Maple Sugar Candy posted by GaryinKS on December 25, 2010 at 19:20:34:
That brings back some memories. I grew up with the stuff. Grandpa sold a lot of maple syrup and once a year would "sugar off" a batch. All the family would come with food and have a picnic by the fire. Usually on Sunday after Church. You'd eat yourself sick on syrup, taffy and then sugar then eat a couple of dill pickles so you could eat some more. You keep boiling it through the taffy stage and eventually it turns to sugar. It's kind of an art getting it just right - not too hard, not too soft. Then he would grease a bunch of muffin pans and pour each hole about 1/3 full. I don't remember him cooling the sugar in any special way. When it was cool he would tip the cakes out of the pans - bunch of hockey pucks of sugar. I remember he had stacks and stacks of muffin pans so I'm guessing we'd make about 50 lbs in a batch. There was 8 of us kids and we did a Lot of sap picking. So we always got a share. Mom would grind it somehow and we'd sprinkle it on hot oatmeal for breakfast - with whole milk with the thick cream on top from the neighbor's dairy farm. We would work for Grandpa as kids, picking berries, bailing boats at his resort, stacking wood, etc, etc and he would give us a quarter or 50 cents plus a cake of maple sugar for our labor. The cake of sugar was kind of a prize and we'd hoard it away from our brothers and sisters. Take a hammer and break the cake into pieces and suck on it like candy.
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