How to Make Maple Sugar
Homemade maple sugar is easy to make at home with only one ingredient: Maple Syrup.
Servings: 1 pound
Ingredients
- 2 cups maple syrup
Instructions
- Place maple syrup in a heavy bottomed deep pan, such an an enameled dutch oven.
- Bring the syrup to a boil over medium high heat. Cook until it reaches 255 to 265 degrees F (or 45 to 50 degrees above the boiling temperature of water at your elevation).
- Turn off heat, and either begin stirring immediately or wait until the syrup cools to around 200 degrees F. Either way, stir by hand or using a stand mixer until the thickened syrup forms into granules.
- Sift the sugar through a fine mesh strainer for more even maple sugar granules.
- Store the maple sugar in a tightly sealed jar at room temperature and it should keep indefinitely.
Notes
A note on yield: Though the syrup cooks down considerably as water evaporates, the resulting sugar fluffs back up in volume. If you're trying to make 1 cup of finished sugar, start with one cup of maple syrup. One pint of syrup yields about 1 pint of maple sugar, or about 1 pound of maple sugar.