Eat the taffy sticks immediately, or place them on a plate or baking sheet lined with waxed paper and refrigerate for a few hours, though it won't be half as fun as eating them on the spot right off the snow.Repeat with the remaining syrup and popsicle sticks.Press one end of the popsicle stick across one end of the taffy and gently but quickly roll the taffy onto the stick, lifting it out of the snow as you go.It will immediately start cooling and hardening into taffy, so grab a popsicle stick. Ladle the syrup onto the snow in a line, as Aimee says, about the length and width of a butter knife.The syrup will rise a few more degrees in temperature even after it's off the stove.
Remove the candy thermometer and immediately take the syrup out to the snow. Go for a nature walk to locate maple trees. Read about maple trees on pages 252-253 in Fun With Nature or use the online resources. Sugar Snow Unit Study Lessons & Activities Science Maple Trees. Clip a candy thermometer to the side of the pan and heat the syrup over medium heat until it reaches 245 degrees— firm-ball stage in candy-making parlance. Video from EmmyMade on making Sugar Snow Maple Candy just like Mary and Laura. Make sure your pot is larger than you think you'll need, because the maple syrup will start to bubble and foam ferociously as it heats, and you don't want it to boil over. Pour the maple syrup into a heavy-bottomed, high-sided 2-quart saucepan. Have a clean swath of fresh packed snow, a handful of popsicle sticks, and a ladle at the ready. Grab a digital version so you can be sure you’re heating it to the right temperature, then give it a go right after the next snowfall. Guess what? It’s crazy fun and crazy simple, as long as you have a candy thermometer to get the maple syrup to the right temperature for setting up on the snow. Photo: Casey BarberĪnd this winter, taking advantage of all that snow we’ve been so fricking blessed with in the Northeast, I finally went forth and tried my hand at something I’ve wanted to do ever since I read Little House on the Prairie in kindergarten: make maple snow taffy. 
With Aimée’s recipes, you can be sure that they will work, but they won’t be hard work to pull together.įor me, the most inspiring aspect of Brown Eggs and Jam Jars is its encouragement to use what you got, then get out and enjoy it in nature as often as possible.Ĭamping, grilling, outdoor dinners, harvest gatherings, apple picking–it’s hard not to lace up my hiking boots and make a backpacker’s banh mi this very minute.
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