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Article: Cooking with Maple Syrup.(Recipe)
- Article from:
- Vegetarian Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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AS I WALKED AWAY FROM THE ELMIRA MAPLE SUGAR Festival in Ontario, Canada, the words of the friendly saleswoman still echoed through my mind: "Enjoy our syrup. It's Ontario's liquid gold. It's the best!" She could have been exaggerating, but the aura of the festival and the maple sweets with which I had stuffed myself made her words plausible.
The first time I stepped into a sugar maple forest--with sap dripping into buckets attached to almost every tree--I felt an air of excitement. I became intoxicated with the enticing odor coming from the steaming vats. All the time we stood by the smiling syrup-maker, he kept an eye on the boiling sap, or 'liquid gold.' As ...