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maple syrup

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a syrup made from the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.

See: maple molasses,molasses,syrup,taffy(def. 2),treacle

Quotations

1703

[. . . a Syrup of Maple beat up with water. . . .]

1849

They . . . brought us . . . a present of butter, and buck-wheat cakes, and a bottle of maple syrup.

1921

The fare consisted of ham . . . slapjacks, known as "Rocky Mountain dead shot," in maple syrup that never saw a maple tree and was black as a pot. . . .

1965

Ontario maple syrup production dropped from 500,000 gallons in 1942 to 125,000 gallons in 1964.