(Boston) March in New England and I forgot the old tradition of 'milking' sugar maple trees of their sap to prepare syrup. Driving along a country road to Concord I got reminded of this first sign of Spring.
On a youtube video they demonstrate how to produce maple syrup and it sounds easy.........
A maple tree, a bucket, a nozzle but then a daily collecting and cooking down of a lot of sap for very little syrup. At least one can understand the price for a bottle of syrup in the grocery store!
When snow is covering the ground - as it did last year - then snow candies can be made. This year just warm syrup poured over pancakes is nice enough.
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