A history of Vermont's maple sugar industry

by Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association

Maple Candy.

Three cups sugar, 1 cup syrup, ½ cup water. When it comes to a boil put in one large spoonful of vinegar ¼ teaspoonful of cream of tartar, 1 lump of butter the size of a walnut. Boil until brittle when dropped into cold water. Pull until light and dry.

Two cups maple honey, 1 cup sugar, ¼ teaspoonful soda, lump of butter half as big as an egg. Boil until brittle when dropped in water, and then take off and cool on plates. When cold, pull and cut up.

Two cups maple sugar, ½ cup of water, 1 tablespoonful vinegar. Boil until it will be crumpy when dropped in cold water. Turn on buttered plates; when cool enough, pull and cut into sticks.