DCHP-3

maple-sugar making

Maple Industry
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the process of boiling maple sap to make syrup and sugar through evaporation and crystallization.

See: sugaring-off(def. 1)

Quotations

1926
There were also such ideal pastimes as . . . visiting Indian encampments . . . and maple-sugar making in the dense woods in spring.
1960
[Caption] An exhibit of maple sugar-making equipment in the Dalziel Barn museum, containing a sled for transportation of the cap tank, oxen yoke, burl dipper, skimmer, large iron pots, sap buckets and maple sugar moulds.