Originally Posted by Melody
There's nothing like maple syrup made right at home. wow. Did you ever make Maple fudge? Or those little melt in your mouth maple sugar candy in a leaf mold?
I am not a hot weather person. I live for the cool (even cold) days of Fall and everything that goes with it. I would like to go up into Canada when their first leaf begins to turn and then work my way south so I could experience Fall for MONTHS!
He and my stepmother made some maple candy as part of their "product line." The problem with syruping is you are at the mercy of the weather. The conditions have to be just right in order to have a good harvest. I helped him a couple of times, and let me tell you.....maple sap is some doggone heavy stuff!!!! Try gathering those buckets out by hand through deep snow, and you'll never complain about the price of REAL maple syrup!! :wink: