Maple Sugaring: Making Granulated Maple Sugar

[H2blip]

Thank you ! I tried your technique and it worked beautifully, so much fun !

 

[DMRippy]

My neighbor tapped our trees a couple of years ago. We will have to give this a try one day. I had no idea you could make sugar! I bet that would be a great replacement for brown sugar in some recipes. I have never really cooked with maple syrup but I might need to change that. I just bought some maple butter ($12 for a jar!) and I bet that is one of the stages before you get to sugar. It is great and I would like more but not at $12 a jar! I might should look for some saplings around the bigger maples and try to cultivate them, but that would be for the great grand kids to use LOL.

 

[FarmhouseFables]

I tried your technique for the first time today. I am using store-bought maple. It says (pure), but I'm sure it has added water because it boils up a LOT. I can't seem to get it above 240 degrees. (Maybe because it still has too much water in it?) I think I may have scorched it trying because it developed a bit of an unpleasant burnt smell.

I also tried to let it cool down to 200, and that was a bad idea for me because it got too hard too fast. I had to work hard to scrape everything down, but it was a bit of a mess.

Blending went well, and I did somehow end up with a decent-looking product. It tastes good. We'll see how it holds up in storage.

Any advice you could offer for my situation would be greatly appreciated.