Winter Camping allows for unique experiences, such as making maple syrup candy on the snow. Here's how I make Maple Taffy ...

2 cups maple syrup, preferably medium amber 10 tablespoons (1 stick and 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter, plus ½ teaspoon for boiling Cook's notes: You will need a deep saucepan and a candy thermometer.

Throughout this process, you’ll be relying on your thermometer to tell you when to move onto the next stage. If your readings are even a couple degrees off, you’ll make sugar instead of syrup! Make ...

This video explores how real maple syrup is made from sap—and then uses it in a bold dry-aging experiment with prime short ...

Fudge remains one of my most memorable cooking failures. I think I was around 11 or 12 and I was trying to make chocolate fudge. I don’t remember the recipe but I do remember that it hadn’t set after ...

In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, maple syrup, brown sugar and salt until the sugar is dissolved. Whisk in the heavy cream. Cover and refrigerate at least two hours and up to overnight. Whisk ...

Here is a delicious winter treat that is easy to make and has only two ingredients: maple syrup and new snow. My grandma taught me to make this confection and called it jack wax. Put 1 cup of real ...

For a maple syrup producer, the sweet spot on the thermometer is way below the readings we saw at the end of February and the beginning of March. With more than two weeks of winter to go, temperatures ...

Spring comes in fits and starts in northern Minnesota. The white of winter is slowly replaced by shriveled, brown snow banks. It rains, then snows. The gulls return, and it snows again. The ...

Toss salad, glaze pork chops, marinate chicken, enrich cocktails, and macerate strawberries with maple syrup this season. Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than 15 years ...