Name: Artificial Maple Sugar
Ingredients: 1 gallon hot or boiling sugar syrup; 3 tablespoons hickory bark or wood extract

Artificial Maple Sugar

Ingredients

1 gallon hot or boiling sugar syrup
3 tablespoons hickory bark or wood extract

Directions

Make the extract

Grind the bark or use sawdust.
Make an extract of hickory bark or wood by allowing water to pass through it.
Use hot water or boil the material in water to create the extract.

Make the maple sugar

Add 3 tablespoons of the hickory extract to the hot or boiling sugar syrup.
If you boil the syrup down, it will produce a sugar that tastes like maple sugar.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Sugar syrup: Forms the sugar base that is boiled down into the finished sugar.
Hickory bark or wood extract: Adds the smoky, maple-like aroma and flavour to the syrup.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.