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Getting it right: Achieving highest quality through accurate density measurement
Accurately measuring the density of finished maple syrup is an important task for commercial syrup producers.
Getting Started with Small-Scale Maple Syrup Production
Making maple syrup is a time-honored tradition for woodlot owners, and anyone who has even a few maple trees. The process is as simple as boiling sap, but attention to a few details will make for a more pleasant, productive, and safe experience. A warning first, many people who start with just a few tapped trees quickly catch the maple bug; what starts as a handful of tapped trees can expand into hundreds of tapped trees.
Getting Started: Value-Added Products
The objective of this document is to provide guidelines for producing and selling packaged value-added maple foods and beverages. This document does not include regulatory requirements for unpackaged products sold at fairs or farmers markets. State and federal regulatory requirements are established to protect the producer and consumer from food safety concerns.
Getting the taste right: Metabolism off-flavor taints maple syrup
Knowing how to detect and avoid metabolic off-flavors is critical to producing high-quality syrup.
Good Agricultural Practices/Good Handling Practices Food Safety Plan for Maple
Template for creating a food safety plan for your sugaring operation.
Gourmet Maple Marshmallows – A New Recipe & Guidelines
The Cornell Maple Program has been working on adapting gourmet marshmallow procedures for a recipe that uses maple as the only sweetener, and the results pack a lot of maple flavor.
Grade Blending: A New Calculator to Get Blended Syrup in Grade
The Cornell Maple Program has developed a new, user-friendly tool to calculate how much of each syrup you would need to blend. This calculator will only help sugarmakers using digital light meters that give the percentage of light transmittance (%Tc) through your syrup.
Granulated Maple Sugar Uses and Recipes
Public-facing brochure to be used to promote the use of granulated maple sugar.
Gravity Filtering: Simple tools and techniques for filtering small batches of maple syrup
To ensure that your maple syrup is the best it can be, filtering out contaminants before packing is critical. Using paper and cloth filters to do so is an acceptable and inexpensive option.