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| | Maple syrup makers go with the flow - The Boston Globe |
 | | At the Coombs family farm near Brattleboro, Vt., maple trees are tapped and then the sap is taken to the sugar house to be boiled down into maple syrup. |
 | | If the syrup is left to boil at higher temperatures, it becomes maple butter, then maple taffy or soft sugar, and then hard sugar. |
 | | During sugar season, they take the hot syrup right from the evaporator and whip up maple taffy, pour it on bowls of mounded snow to cool it down, twirl the sticky taffy around sticks or forks, and wolf it down with dill pickles, doughnuts, and coffee. |
| www.boston.com /ae/food/articles/2007/03/21/maple_syrup_makers_go_with_the_flow (741 words) |
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