What is a sugarhouse?
 A sugarhouse, or sugar shack, is a small building -- usually rustic and ramshackle -- where maple sap is boiled to make maple syrup. In New England and Canada, where most maple syrup is produced, the sugaring season runs several weeks in late winter and early spring.If it's all about the syrup, why is it called a sugarhouse? Until the cheaper production of cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup was developed, most maple sap was used to make sugar. Now, even though almost all of the sap is boiled down to syrup, the language of the sugaring process survives. That explains why a person who makes maple syrup is called a sugarmaker, and why a grove of tapped maple trees is called a sugarbush. For more information, visit the Vermont Maple Syrup website, a joint project by the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association and the Vermont Maple Foundation. Recipe: Maple-Walnut Cookies (Diet, Desserts and Dogs) Recipe: Maple Plum Crumble (Cookthink) (Image courtesy of Kedron Sugar Makers.) |
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