February 28, 2011

John Burroughs (Naturalist) and Maple Sugaring

Sap out of tap 

"When made in quantity - that is, quickly from the first run of sap and properly treated - it has a wild delicacy of flavor that no other sweet can match. What you smell in freshly cut wood, or taste in the blossom of the tree, is in it. It is then, indeed, the distilled essence of the tree."

John Burroughs, Signs and Seasons, 1886

Feb 28, 2011 1:45:17 PM | Maple Syruping

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