EDITORS:—We use sheet iron pans almost entirely, for the purpose of making maple sugar ... The acidulous action of the sap is (certainly very) slight. The manner of setting the pans, arches ...
Native Americans taught the European settlers how to make maple syrup. They would cut a gash in the tree and collect the sap in containers made of tree bark. All the sap collected was poured into a ...
It is expensive because of the low yield from the sap (40 gallons of sap are needed for one gallon of syrup!) but the cheaper imitations labelled ‘maple-flavoured syrup’ made from a mixture of ...