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Maple Syrup Gift Baskets
There’s Maple Magic in the Green Mountains!

Vermont Maple Syrup is an all-natural product that is known
round the world for its’ uniquely rich and magnificently “mapley”
flavor!  The pure joy of letting a big ladle of warm, freshly boiled
maple syrup slide down your throat is a pleasure that most
Vermont children get to experience at least once.   Boiling the
sap from the hard maple tree, (Acer saccharum), to a proper
consistency thereby  producing maple syrup is a tradition that
goes back to colonial times, but some say syrup was made
well before then.  
Local Native American Indians of the Algonquin tribes called
maple syrup, ”sinzibuckwud” ,which literally means, “drawn
from wood”.  We probably won’t try to say that word fast three
times, or use spell check on it!  

It takes about thirty five to forty gallons of sap to make a gallon
of syrup.  That’s one of the reasons it’s a bit of a pricey food
item, besides the sheer amount of time and arduous physical
labor it takes to make it.  Sap is the watery substance that
comes from the tree, and small metal spigots called “taps” are
driven into the tree to access the sap.  The amount of sap
needed to make a gallon of maple syrup varies because of the
sugar content in the sap.  The higher the sugar content, the
less boiling it takes to get a gallon of syrup.  Sugar content is
measured using a simple instrument called a specific gravity
meter.  It’s really measuring the density of the sugar in the
sap/syrup against a known standard.  

Syrup that stays in the collection lines or in the holding tanks or
buckets too long starts to get darker from bacterial growth and
sunlight degradation among other factors.   That’s why boiling
soon after collection is a best practice for boilers.  Syrup is
graded using   letters A and B with sub qualifiers like fancy,
light, amber, medium, dark, and cooking grade, among others.  
Vermont maple producers do not add water or anything foreign
to their syrup.  New Hampshire also makes an excellent quality
syrup.
By far, the biggest maple producers come from Quebec
Canada.

Well, that’s enough about maple syrup for now, but feel free to
go to our articles pages for entertaining and informative articles,
recipes, and information.  And don’t forget to order some syrup
for yourself!
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Honey Maple Spread
$14.95
Dip a crisp apple wedge into some Honey Maple spread by Maple Grove Farms in Vermont. Comes as a set.
Maple Treats Gift Basket
$39.95
Maple Treats Gift Basket will surround you with Maple flavor! Maple cream cookies, pure maple sugar candies, VT maple fudge, Maple Grove maple spread, a 1.7 oz. glass syrup leaf, two Lake Champlain maple crunch chocolates, and a bag of what else? Maple Crunch popcorn! All delivered in a beautiful woven basket with a wooden frame and handle.
Grade A Maples Syrup Quart
$16.95
Grade A Maple Syrup Pint
$9.95
One Half Pint Vemont Maple Syrup Grade A
$5.95
 
 
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