birch (tree) syrup

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sweet syrup made by boiling the sap of the birch tree.

Quotations

1896

The women had all set off to the woods to make birch syrup.

1934

[We] enjoyed the rabbit stew and purple-colored birch syrup. . . .

1948

Here she . . . tasted birch tree syrup for the first time.