Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup - Hardcover

Hauser, Susan Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558215999 ISBN 13: 9781558215993

Publisher: Lyons Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Sugaring is the act of collecting maple sap to make maple syrup, an early-spring endeavor that takes place all around the country - in Vermont, most famously, but also throughout New England, as far south as Ohio, and as far west as Minnesota. It is a time-honored tradition that has changed little since the Native Americans sugared centuries ago. Sugartime is a beautifully rendered narrative about the act of sugaring, a soulful activity that, like the best of outdoor hobbies, slows time down. Interspersed with the book's lyrical account of a season in the sugarbush are separate sections that serve as a primer to guide the beginner through every stage of surgaring, from selecting trees and hanging sap buckets to finishing off maple syrup. For anyone with an interest in taking up sugaring, everyone who has a maple tree, and all those with a nostalgia for the rural landscape Sugartime will be a joy to discover. (43/4 X 73/4, 148 pages, b&w photos, illustrations)

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Review:

Sugartime is not only a how-to but also history and health and happiness in nature. Of the task of making syrup, the foreword explains, "I had stumbled upon good work, the kind that slows time and deepens the spirit." With instructions that go "from tree to table," Susan Carol Hauser describes the process and the pleasures of sugaring, from the early Ojibwa sugar camps, to the depiction of the hardening of sweet syrup in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Sugar-on-Snow," to the 20th-century return to this ancient harvesting. Various gathering techniques and several recipes for maple syrup and other uses of the sugar are illustrated in this charming book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lyons Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1558215999
• ISBN 13: 9781558215993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 143