Enjoy With Maple Syrup Snow Candy Or Maple Taffy in 2023 [Recipe & Tips]

Creating homemade candies on top of the snow is a fun and traditional winter pastime that can be done with your family in the backyard or with your children in the schoolyard. In 2023, you should go for something healthy like maple taffy or maple syrup snow candy.

 

Only two ingredients are required to make maple syrup snow candy, which is also referred to as snow taffy, maple taffy or maple syrup taffy. These ingredients are pure maple syrup and clean, fresh snow.

 

Let's start from scratch and know about maple taffy or maple syrup snow candy. 

 

The tradition of making maple taffy or maple taffy on snow

An age-old ritual of the maple sap harvest is the production of maple toffees, which are also known as "sugar on snow" candy in the United States and tyre d'érable in Canada. A large group of excited children and adults can be seen huddled together around the packed snow in this 1955 video that was archived by British Pathé. They watch as a woman pours the hot syrup over the snow. It takes only a few seconds until the candy can be rolled, dolloped with popsicle sticks, and devoured by mouthfuls.

 

The production of pure maple syrup is one of the oldest agricultural businesses in the United States, and with it comes the tradition of making these chewy candies. This practice dates back to the days when the United States was settled by pioneers. In areas where maple sap is produced, such as eastern Ontario, New Brunswick, northern New England, and Quebec, it's a common sweet to find in these places.

 

People continue to practise the ritual now. Sugar On Snow Parties are a popular way for residents of New England to get together and celebrate the arrival of winter. At these parties, large quantities of maple toffee are prepared and served alongside sour pickles and doughnuts. In the video that can be found below, a woman who makes maple syrup candies in the Canadian province of Quebec stands at a station where she pours syrup from a tin canister and rolls up small lollipops to sell to clients.

How to make maple syrup snow candy or maple taffy?

Candy in its purest form is described as being like maple syrup snow candy. To make it, you first make a bed of clean snow, then pour boiling maple syrup over it. The freezing snow puts an immediate stop to the heating of the syrup and, in a matter of seconds, brings it down to the consistency of taffy.

Snow candy preparation broken down into three simple steps

Ingredients:

Place the syrup in a small pot, then cook it over high heat until it reaches a boil. As soon as the syrup reaches a boil, it will begin to bubble. Continue to boil the syrup while monitoring the temperature with a candy thermometer. Stop boiling the syrup when it reaches the "soft ball" stage (235-240 degrees fahrenheit). Don't be concerned if you get through the stage of soft ball. Your candy will just have a crispier texture than a chewy one.

1. Take the saucepan off the heat, and pour the syrup in a pattern over the snow outside. BE CAREFUL. The syrup has a very high temperature.
2. Insert a craft or popsicle stick into the syrup, and then, while the syrup is still warm, roll it up to cover the stick as it is cooling.
3. confectioning candies out of maple syrup on the snow
4. At the end of the process, you'll have a gorgeous maple syrup candy burst!

 

To produce individual candies, you can also create individual puddles of syrup on the snow and pour it over the snow.

A few pointers for making delicious maple taffy on the snow

Don't have a thermometer? You can test the consistency of your maple taffy with water that has been kept at a very low temperature. When you feel like it, add a few drops of taffy to your glass of ice cold water. Do this occasionally. When it starts to form droplets, it's time to put it under the gun!

 

There is a simple method that can be utilised to forestall the maple syrup from foaming up and spilling out of the pan in the process. In order to make a sort of handle for the purpose of holding a teaspoon on the inside edge of the pan, the teaspoon must be bent. The interior of the spoon ought to be oriented such that it is perpendicular to the base of the pan. Before you begin heating your maple syrup, fill it up to the halfway point with vegetable oil.

 

Foam will begin to develop as the temperature rises. When the latter comes into contact with the oil that is stored in the spoon, it won't be able to grow much taller. A jar is another option for storing the taffy in its entirety. After this, it is suggested that you wait until it reaches 115 degrees Celsius, rather than 114 degrees Celsius, before stopping the heating process. After you have placed it inside the jar, add a few drops of ice water to the top of the jar. This will prevent the taffy from turning into sugar crystals and ruining its texture. After that, you'll be able to consume it with a spoon!

 

Do you still have some maple taffy left? It is used in the production of butter and maple sugar. Pour what is left into a basin and mix it for a short amount of time to make maple sugar, but stir it for a longer period of time to make maple butter.

 

In the end, we would like to say that the process for making maple taffy is also equally interesting for kids. So while doing it at home, you need to make sure that kids are safe and you have cooled the taffy enough before giving it to your kids.