Sunday, February 24, 2008
Maple sugaring time
Tonight M has been trying to make granulated maple sugar. To do this you take pure maple sugar and boil it and when it gets to 260 degrees you start to stir like hell. Eventually you will stir it into sugar.

Unfortunately tonight's batch has not been cooperating. He has boiled the same batch over and over and only gets a thick goopy caramel type mess. He finally gave up on one batch and decided to try to pull it into taffy. The picture below shows his creation. It actually is more like hard candy (think Jolly Rancher). You wouldn't want to bite it, but it's really good.

Written at 12:03 AM by Highlandgal.
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