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sugar-making
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the process of boiling maple sap to make syrup and sugar through evaporation and crystallization.
Quotations
1767
Sugar-making continued till the twelfth of May.
1853
The chopping now begins, and may be followed without any interruption until the season for sugar-making commences.
1923
There is a quaint old Indian legend, according to which the Redman is held responsible for the manifold labors attendant upon the sugar-making industry.
1963
Indian sugar-making was an ancient and very primitive process, and the resulting sugar poor and dirty.