Maple Syrup Cookbook

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Has anyone purchased or seen the cookbook that was listed in CS magazine about cooking with maple syrup?? If you did, did you find it a worthwhile investment if you had plenty of syrup to cook with? We make our own and I have not been able to lay my hands on the book and I hate to buy a book I have not seen.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), April 01, 2002

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I need more info. I get CS but didn't see that. What's the name of the book? Since we make maple syrup, I have and have used a number of different maple cookbooks private ones and state association ones-- --even helped to put one together for the Indiana Maple Syrup Association a couple of years ago.

-- Rosalie (Dee) in IN (deatline@globalsite.net), April 01, 2002.

It is called "The Maple Syrup Cookbook" by Ken Haedrich. Writeup reads as follows: At last! - A recipe book thaat substitutes maple syrup for sugar!

It has 134 pages and cost $12.95

I have been wanting to do more cooking with our maple syrup.......like in everything I can. We have honey also, but we are always struggling with mites etc. in our bees and it is not as dependable for our sugar as the maple syrup is.

I would appreciate knowing of any good book that would help me make "sugar" successfully and teach me how to bake with it.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), April 01, 2002.


That sounds like a great book. Wonder if it would be at the library? Then you could preview before you buy.

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 02, 2002.

There are lots of maple syrup recipes on the web....

http://www.google.com/search? hl=en&q=maple+syrup+recipes&btnG=Google+Search

-- Peace and Carrots Farm (wsm311@aol.com), April 02, 2002.


Well, that's a book I'm not familiar with---or it's hidden so deep in my cookbooks that I don't find it! Vermont puts out a nice little maple cookbook, THE OFFICIAL VERMONT MAPLE COOKBOOK, which sells for only $1, usually. We have one in Indiana which is also very small but we charge $2 and has much the same stuff. Address for the Vermont book is Vermont Maple Promotion Board, C/o Vermont Department of Agriculture, 116 State Street, Drawer 20, Montpelier, VT 05620-2901 I put the Indiana one together a few years ago and since it was published, have found several errors in it, so we need to do a reprint with corrections, but we need to sell all of these first. My husband is the Public Relations person for our state organization.

Here's how to make granulated (Indian) sugar. Heat light (light syrup has a more favorable invert sugar ratio for sugar and candies) syrup to 260 degrees. Actually, you need to check the boiling point because it varies according to the barometer that day and this is a pretty precise operation. Cook the syrup to 48 degrees above the boiling point that day. Do this in small batche---maybe a quart or so---but you'll need enough that the evaporation won't make it so small an amount that it easily burns. Watch this VERY carefully as it will scorch readily. When it approaches this temperature, it will be all suspended in the bubbles in the pan and have a somewhat "explosive" look about it. It will also smell almost scorched. At the 260 degrees, or whatever, remove the pan from the heat and stir, stir, stir. This is almost magical. As you stir, it begins to granulate and very quickly all of it will be granulated. I don't do this too often because it takes time and sometimes it fails so I have to just dissolve what's in the pan and use it somehow. When this is done and I've poured my sugar into something else, I cook sassafras (other tea would be just as good) in the pan to utilize the stuck-on-the-sides sugar (also cleans the pan up!) I use this sugar as I would white sugar. It is so-o-o good. Let me know how you get along. You can email me directly if you have questions, tho this discussion might be interesting to other people on the forum.

-- Rosalie ( Dee) in IN (deatline@globalsite.net), April 02, 2002.



post it on the barter board!

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), April 02, 2002.

I did try the library.....that is why I posted the question here cause I wanted at least someone's view of the book before I ordered. I am so cheap, I always take the books from the library before I will buy one to add to my own collection. This one I have just not been able to find. Thanks all........guess I have wasted more than $12.00 in my life!!!

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), April 02, 2002.

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