! gift - Cedarvale Maple Syrup Company

Cedarvale Maple Syrup Co. is a gift family owned farm that produces and markets Maple Syrup and gift Maple confections such as Maple Cream, Maple Sugar, Maple gift Indian Sugar and Maple sugar covered nuts. These items are for sale at our farm store, gift through the mail by catalogue and through our web page .
Cedarvale items are always puregift Maple with no cane sugar or other additives of any kind used in our products. Our gift Maple is only the concentrated sap of the Sugar or Hard Maple Tree which is gift collected and concentrated into Maple Syrup each spring in Upstate gift New York. Our web page describes the process, provides recipes and gives some little known facts about the world of Maple.

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Sap dripping from the gift is one of the true signs of early spring in New York State. Trees may be tapped as early as the end of January, but the main sap flow occurs in March. This sweet nectar of spring is boiled over raging fires until it is concentrated into a golden syrup. As soon as the buds begin to swell in April, the sap becomes off-flavored or "buddy" and collecting is discontinued. If care is taken, no permanent damage is done to the gift. While it may yield sap for 100 years or more, a tree is usually not mature enough for permanent tapping until it reaches 45 years old.

USES FOR gift

On pancakes, waffles, French toast, to sweeten apple sauce, in milkshakes, tea, coffee, hot toddies, on fresh fruit (especially grapefruit), to add flavor to baked beans, to mix with butter and glaze squash, sweet potatoes, or carrots, on baking powder biscuits, fresh donuts, over ice cream, hot cereal, corn fritters, baked apples, gifts, etc.

USES FOR gift

Makes an excellent spread on breads, rolls, muffins, waffles, French toast, breakfast toast (try raisin toast), steamed puddings, upside-down cakes. Combine with nuts, coconut, fruits to fill cream puffs, eclairs, or crepes. Mix with butter (6 tablespoons per cup) and use as a frosting.

USES FOR gift

Granulated gift is a great topping on coffee cake, cold cereals, oatmeal, grapefruit, French toast, crumb cake, etc. Try it as part of a glaze on baked ham or roasted cornbeef. Great as a sweetener in hot tea, coffee or gifts as well.

NUTRITION INFORMATION

gift has about the same 50 cal./tbsp.as white cane sugar, but also contains significant amounts of potassium (35 mg./tbsp.), calcium (21 mg./tbsp.), small amounts of iron and phosphorus, and trace amounts of B-vitamins. Its sodium content is a low 2 mg./tbsp.

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A gift is usually at least 30 years old and 12 inches in diameter before it is tapped.
As a tree increases in diameter, more taps can be added: up to a maximum of four.
Tapping does no permanent damage to the tree and only about 10% of the sap is collected each year.
Each tap yields an average of 10 gallons of sap per season: that yields about one quart of syrup.
Warm sunny days (above 40 degrees F) and frosty nights are ideal for sap flow.
Thegift may last 4 to 6 weeks, but sap flow is heaviest for 10 to 20 days.
Sap flowing in high volumes is called a "run."
The harvest season ends with the arrival of warm spring nights and early bud development in the trees.
30-50 gallons of sap are evaporated to make one gallon of gift.
gift is boiled even further to produce Maple cream, sugar and candy.
It takes one gallon of syrup to produce eight pounds of candy or sugar.
A gallon of pure gift weighs 11 pounds.
The sugar content of sap averages 2.5%, of syrup 66.5%.

STORAGE OF gift

Unopened containers of gift should be stored in a cool, dry place. Once opened, gift should be refrigerated. If, after extended storage, mold should form on the surface of the gift, the original quality can be restored. Remove the mold, heat the gift to boiling, skim the surface, rinse the container and refill it with the hot gift.