Maple

Maple Butter

Maple Spread © Denzil Green Genuine Maple Butter does not contain any butter; rather, it is a spread made from 100% maple syrup. The syrup used to be cooked down to a spread consistency. It would be formed into blocks of very thick Maple Butter wrapped in waxed paper. Keeping it spreadable, though, was always…

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Maple Jelly

Maple Jelly is a spread made from maple syrup, water and a geller such as gelatin or Genugel. Pectin pectin won’t work with maple as a thickener. The Jelly is translucent, not opaque, with no bubbles. Homemade Maple Jelly may not look as clear and pure as the commercial brands, but the taste will be…

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Maple Syrup

Maple Syrup © Denzil Green Maple Syrup comes from the sap of sugar maple trees. Sugar maples are a member of the hard maples group, which includes others such as Black Maple, but it is primarily the sugar maples which are tapped for their sap (red or silver maples can also be tapped.) One tree…

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