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gum-sugar
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n.
a kind of maple sugar. See quotes.
See: maple sugar
Quotations
1860
A third variety [of maple sugar] is the "gum," or "wax sugar." This is produced by throwing the thick-boiled sugar into the snow and cooling it rapidly.
1863
An Indian girl was making what is called gum-sugar, near the kettles: cutting moulds of various shapes in the snow, and dropping therein small quantities of the boiling molasses [maple sap], which cooled rapidly into a tough yellowish substance, which could be drawn out with the fingers like toffy.