Definitions

1. A maple tree is usually 30 years old or more and at least 10 inches in diameter before it is tapped.
2. The Sugar Maple tree is one of the most important trees in Canada for being the major big source for maple syrup, one of the biggest industries in Canada. (Web site)
3. The Red Maple tree is famous throughout the country for brilliant red foliage that seems almost the trademark of fall. (Web site)
4. The red maple tree (or Acer rubrum) is also known as a scarlet maple, swamp maple or soft maple.
5. The Black Maple tree is often used for making maple syrup.

Maple Wood

1. Deriving from or having a characteristic of a maple tree or maple wood.

Organic Maple Syrup

1. Where the maple tree grows is part of how we classify the type of maple syrup like organic maple syrup.

Fresh Maple Syrup

1. I have not sucked on a maple tree to determine if FRESH maple syrup is a viable food source at this point. (Web site)

Collecting Sap

1. Any native variety of maple tree may be used for collecting sap.

Manitoba Maple Tree

1. The province of Manitoba produces maple syrup using the sap of the Manitoba maple tree (Acer negundo, also known as the "box-elder").

Red Maple Tree

1. This viscous amber liquid with its characteristic earthy sweet taste is made from the sap of the sugar, black or red maple tree.

Sweet Sap

1. The Native American Indians had been making sugar from the sweet sap of the maple tree for many years. (Web site)

Sweet

1. Sweet Note: A maple tree may be 30-40 years old before reaching this appropriate size.

Trunk

1. This pressure develops first in the twigs, then in the trunk, and finally in the roots of the maple tree. (Web site)

Indians

1. To make their sugar, the Indians would cut a slash in the maple tree and collect the sap as it dripped out. (Web site)

Inches

1. The maple tree must be a least 10 inches in diameter and in good health before it can be tapped.

Quite Large

1. There are many kinds of maple tree, and most are quite large.

Several Varieties

1. Wisconsin forests and woods are home to several varieties of the maple tree. (Web site)

Native Americans

1. Native Americans have been credited as the first to discover that the sweet sap from a maple tree could be processed into maple syrup. (Web site)

Sugar Maple Tree

1. Cordless Drill To install the metal spile, a hole must first be drilled into the trunk of a sugar maple tree.
2. A sugar maple tree is usually 30 years old or more and at least ten inches in diameter before it is tapped.

Sugar

1. Sap from the sugar maple tree is about 98 percent water and 2 percent sugar, other nutrients, and minerals. (Web site)
2. Native Americans were the first to collect the sweet sap from the sugar maple tree, Acer saccharrum, and use in their cooking. (Web site)
3. Pure maple syrup is an agricultural product produced only in the spring from the sweet sap of the sugar maple tree. (Web site)

Tree

1. The weather turned warm and the gash in the tree, a maple tree, dripped sap into a vessel that happened to stand close to the trunk.
2. The red maple tree, with the scientific name of Acer rubrum, is a tree with a range throughout most of the eastern half of the United States.

Trees

1. The Sugar Maple tree is one of America's most loved trees. (Web site)

Maple Syrup

1. Real maple syrup is a pure, natural product with a unique flavor, and is simply the concentrated sap of the maple tree. (Web site)
2. The discovery of the technology to turn sap from the maple tree into maple syrup is attributed to the Native Americans.
3. Maple syrup comes from the boiled down sap of the sugar maple tree. (Web site)

American Indians

1. It was American Indians, after all, who first discovered that the sweet sap of the maple tree made a superb flavoring.

Maple

1. Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc. (Web site)
2. Black Maple Tree The black maple tree (acer nigrum) is also known as the black sugar maple, hard maple or rock maple.

Syrup

1. Research has centered on the sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum Marsh.) and its products--sap and syrup. (Web site)

Tomahawk

1. One legend tells the story of an Iroquois chief who threw his tomahawk into a maple tree one early March eve. (Web site)
2. The Algonquins would chop a wedge in a maple tree with a tomahawk and then harvest the sap. (Web site)

Canada

1. Maple syrup and the sugar maple tree are symbols of Canada and several US states, particularly Vermont.

Economic Importance

1. Owing to its economic importance, the maple tree is an emblem of Canada, and its leaf is depicted on its flag.
2. Owing to its economic importance, the maple tree and its leaves are symbols of Canada and are depicted on its flag. (Web site)

Tap

1. Harvesting sap in the traditional manner means one has to tap a maple tree and then gather up the sap in a bucket.
2. Tap your maple tree in late winter or early spring. (Web site)

Taps

1. Traditional touch Two taps in a maple tree, use a plastic tube to collect the sap.
2. Two taps in a maple tree, using plastic tubing for sap collection.

Sap

1. Maple syrup is made from maple tree sap with the excess water boiled from it.
2. The amount of sugar in maple tree sap is variable. (Web site)
3. The custom of collecting the sap of the maple tree and boiling it to obtain syrup from it comes to us from the Amerindians.

Maple Tree

1. No one really knows who first discovered how to make syrup and sugar from the sap of a maple tree.
2. Traditional touch Two taps in a maple tree, with plastic tubing to collect sap. (Web site)
3. The paper looks at the maple tree and its two features of helicopter seeds and the syrup or sugar which is made from its sap.

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2. Cooking > Foods > Sugar > Maple Syrup
3. Taps
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