Making Your Own Maple Sugar

Making Your Own Maple Sugar

Making maple sugar is pretty simple. You just need to cook the water out of the syrup. To make one cup of maple sugar, start with a cup of syrup. Pour into a pot and simmer over low heat for about 25-30 minutes. Stir, stir, stir. (And did I mention you should stir?) You especially need to stir near the end. The syrup will become foamy. When it seems as though the syrup is all foam, pour into a ceramic bowl. If it collapses, you are not done cooking and back into the pan it goes.

When the foam has cooled, break it up and grind it in a food processor, with a mortar and pestle or in batches in a blender. Store sugar in a glass jar. Use as a substitute for regular sugar, one for one.