maple syrup

  • Plain Encounter

    Last year, my parents bought 40 acres of forested land in Hiram, Ohio, so my dad can expand his maple sugaring operation. When I visited them last week, they were deep in the process of having the land surveyed so… Continue reading

    Plain Encounter

  • Two years

    Dear blog, Today you are older and hopefully wiser. (I’m not sure I am.) We’ve done quite a bit this past year… cooked from recipes from 1967, 1903, and the 1st century AD visited Downton Abbey through Victorian and Edwardian… Continue reading

  • Maple sugaring (II)

    Last week I wrote about my family’s maple sugaring tradition. Today I’ll add an amendment: while we love most of the maple sugaring process (tapping trees, collecting sap, boiling it down in the evaporator), we have a hard time with… Continue reading

  • Maple sugaring

    In our family, February and March are the maple syrup months. Temperatures dip to freezing at night and warm up during the day, so the sap runs easily from the trees. Evenings are spent out in the sugar shed, boiling… Continue reading