Sap
What months are considered to be maple sap harvesting season?
Varies between February and April
What is the most common food syrup is used on?
Pancakes
What is the first step in making maple syrup?
Tap the maple tree
Name 3 maple products
Maple syrup
Maple candy
Maple ice cream
Maple cookies
Maple BBQ sauce
How is sap turned into Maple syrup?
By being boiled down
Who first discovered how to make maple syrup?
Indigenous people have been making maple syrup for hundreds of years.
What is the second step in making maple syrup?
Collect sap in buckets or using tubing
What is the most popular maple product worldwide?
Maple syrup
How is sap collected?
By inserting a tap into a maple tree and collecting sap in a bucket or tubing
Which Canadian province makes the most maple syrup?
Quebec
What is the third step in making maple syrup?
Boil sap down by evaporating off the water
What is maple syrup often used to replace in baking recipes?
Sugar or sweetener
What is the ideal temperature to collect sap?
When the temperature is below freezing at night and above freezing during the day
Can all maple trees create maple syrup?
Yes, but the sugar maple makes the sweetest syrup.
What is the last step in making maple syrup?
Bottling the syrup
What ingredients are used to make maple syrup?
Only sap
How many litres of sap are needed to make 1 litre of syrup?
40 litres of sap=1 litre syrup
how long does maple syrup last?
1 year unopened or in refrigerator.
Indefinitely in the freezer
How long does it take to boil sap into syrup
12 to 14 hours
What symbol is commonly used to represent maple products
maple leaf