syrups

Reviews the history of maple syrup, discussing its importance to pioneer communities; explains how sugar maples are tapped; describes how sap is collected and processed; and includes photographs, recipes, and comments from maple syrup makers in the U.S. and Canada.

The reader learns how maple syrup is made the old-fashioned way as they see Bear make it.

Simple text and photographs describe how maple sugar is harvested from trees and made into maple syrup.

Presents a description of how sap is turned into syrup, in simple text with illustrations, describing the process, step-by-step, from how it is found in maple trees how sugar is added, and how it is eaten.