Maple Syrup Lollipops Recipe (How to Make Maple Lollipops) (2024)

FAQs

How to make maple syrup step by step? ›

The five steps involved from start to finish are: (1) preparing for the season; (2) determining WHEN to tap; (3) identifying the trees to be tapped and tapping them, (4) collecting the sap and processing (boiling/evaporating) it; (5) filtering, grading and packing the syrup.

In maple-flavored glazes, frostings, and other desserts, a teaspoon or two of maple extract adds full maple flavor. In recipes, it's often used in tandem with maple syrup, a larger amount of which adds subtler maple flavor, but also adds sugar and liquid.

Maple candy is perishable and has a relatively short shelf life. We make our candy to order so it is as fresh as possible when we ship it. It will last for about two months. It doesn't go 'bad' but it will get hard and crunchy as it ages.

Maple leaf candy is an authentic sweet with just two ingredients: maple syrup and butter. It doesn't get much simpler—or sweeter—than that. Maple syrup is boiled, mixed with just a bit of butter, and then molded into beautiful leaf-shaped candies.

Maple Sap Becomes Syrup through Evaporation

In the evaporator, the sap is boiled for several hours at a temperature of 104° C, until the sugar content and other molecules attain a level of 66%, known as 66 degrees Brix. It takes an average of 40 litres of sap to make one litre of maple syrup.

Generally the ratio of sap to syrup for the sugar maple is 40 to 1 (40 gallons of sap yields one gallon of syrup).

Does Maple Syrup Go Bad? As it turns out, maple syrup does have a shelf life once opened, and mold is not as uncommon as we thought. StillTasty.com indicates that 100 percent pure maple syrup should keep for a year unopened in the pantry, a year opened in the refrigerator, and indefinitely in the freezer.

Maple syrup gives you carbohydrates in the form of sugars without fiber. As a result, maple syrup can cause swings in blood sugar and insulin levels. Insulin is a hormone that moves sugar in our blood to cells that convert it to energy. People with diabetes may have bad side effects from the sugar in maple syrup.

For every 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract called for in your recipe, use about 1 tablespoon of honey or maple syrup.

Maple syrup unopened will last indefinitely. All of our syrup is heat packed and sealed so until it is cracked open it will have an indefinite shelf life. Once the jug is opened it should be kept in the refrigerator and should last up to 2 years.

How do you store homemade maple candy? ›

Pour into molds; allow to cool at room temperature until set. Unmold candy. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 month.

But once opened, pure maple syrup should be stored in the refrigerator. This is less about safety (the heat packing process prevents contamination) than it is about quality, as leaving it out increases the likelihood of mold.

Heating crystalized batches from the edge of the pan creates uneven temperatures that can lead to white spots and it requires continuous stirring during the heating so syrup on the edge does not get too hot and scorch.

A quality maple candy is identified by its smoothness, hardness, shelf-life, and lack of blemishes. To extend the shelf-life from 1- to 3-weeks to 9- to 12-months, a protective layer of sugar crystals is formed on the outside of the candy by submerging it in heated, supersaturated maple syrup.

Maple taffy is also made in the Canadian province of Manitoba using syrup from the Manitoba maple tree (also known as a box elder). The syrup and taffy produced from a Manitoba maple are generally darker and have a mustier flavour than that made from sugar maples.

Sugar Maples are best, but any Maple will do. The others just have slightly lower sugar concentration so you'll get a little less syrup. In fact, you can tap many other types of trees including Birches, Black Walnut, and Black Walnut.

The sap of a sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum) is 98 percent water and 2 percent sugar—and it is that 2 percent that will yield a delicious sweetener. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup, and it is simply by boiling the sap to remove water and thus concentrate the sugar that makes maple syrup.

In general, the length of time it takes to boil maple sap to maple sugar depends on the efficiency of the evaporator. A small evaporator (a pan which is about 2 feet by 6 feet), can boil about 25 gallons of sap per hour and a larger evaporator (6 feet by 18 feet) can boil up to 380 gallons per hour.

Maple Syrup Evaporation

After harvesting in the maple woods, the sap is transported to a sugar house where it boils down to become real maple syrup. During cooking, storage tank pipes feed sap to a long and narrow ridged pan called an evaporator. As it boils, water evaporates and becomes denser and sweeter.