January 29th, 2008
Traps To Avoid If You Want Perfect Maple Sugar Candy
Maple sugar candy is one of Nature’s little-known gifts. It has three times the sweetening power of cane sugar. Maple syrup is that rich in sugar because it 43 gallons of maple sugar sap need to be boiled down in order to make one gallon of maple syrup.
With an ingredient that sweet, making maple sugar candy at home is extremely rewarding…as long as you can avoid wasting many jugs of maple syrup trying to get it to turn out right. One common mistake is that people think making maple sugar is just like making fudge. Here are a couple tricks I learned that result in less frustration and more great maple candy every time.