Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar maples, by boiling the sap to concentrate the sugar. According to the “Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America,” Native ...

As much as many of us love maple syrup, it’s all too easy to box it into a corner as just another sweetener, a less refined alternative to granulated sugar. But that doesn’t do this staple justice.

When using maple syrup as an ingredient in salad dressing, replace any refined sugar in your recipe with maple syrup at a 1-to-1 ratio. Watch for changes in consistency, though — since maple syrup ...

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Cooking with maple syrup Yes, we still keep a jug or bottle in the refrigerator to enjoy with breakfast. but these days we’re ...

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Maple syrup is a natural for pancakes and baking, and it has shown its prowess in savory dishes. But the springtime ingredient is equally at home in cocktails, too. Bentley Gilman, head distiller of ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic tubing ...

Amelia Rampe — chef-trained at the Institute of Culinary Education — is the former senior food editor for Food & Wine with more than a decade of experience in food editing, recipe developing, and food ...