Pure Vermont Maple Syrup

All decorative glass bottles are Grade A medium amber. Grade A medium amber features characteristic maple flavor, pronounced maple bouquet and medium amber color, making this the perfect pancake syrup and for all around use.

Sizes: 8oz, 12oz, 1 liter

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Sugaring

Days and days of grey weather have finally given way to a string of warmer, sunny weather. The days have been gradually warming for about a week and everyone in town is complaining about muddy back roads. Today the forecast calls for the temperature to rise to 40 degrees, always astonishing when the early morning temperature has begun in the teens. Why is it that 40 degrees in the spring is weather that teases the jackets off of children, and you can barely get them to go outdoors at 40 degrees in November?

The days longer now, fill everyone with renewed energy. So it is that talk at the dinner table gives rise to speculation about whether or not our friends with the sugarbush just a few miles away will be sugaring tonight. Speculation has turned to pleading to go watch the sugaring. We're wondering how muddy the road will be but we are as caught up in the excitement as our children. A hasty dinner cleanup has us on the road in no time for in truth we love this outing as much as the kids. The dirt road to the sugarbush is a two mile steady climb and the road isn't too bad. The road twists and turns, and it isn't until we round the last bend in the road that we can see off into the distance whether there is a reddish glow from the sugarhouse stack.

When we stop the car at the sugarhouse and get out the first thing we smell is wood smoke with a sweet note. When we look up the star studded sky is illuminated by sparks from the sugarhouse smoke stack. We walk on planks laid over the muddy path to the sugarhouse and swing open the door to the sweet aroma, moist sugar-laden air, and faces of old friends. We talk, watch and wait till the next pan of syrup cooked to just the right density is drawn off and filtered into a tall barrel to fill our jar with still hot syrup. Tonight we will go home and make a short stack of pancakes for the ultimate cool spring night dessert.

--Lisa