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Maple-sugar Syrup

A syrup made by dissolving maple sugar in boiling water and reducing it.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Maple-sugar Syrup

about 1 pint of syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break up the maple sugar into small pieces.

  2. Pour the boiling water over the sugar and let it melt on the back of the stove.

  3. Strain the mixture through several layers of cheesecloth.

  4. Return the strained syrup to the heat and boil for 30 minutes, skimming off any foam.

  5. You should have about 1 pint of syrup.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Maple sugar
Provides the sweetness and maple flavor that form the syrup.
Boiling water
Dissolves the maple sugar into a liquid 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.

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