New England Cuisine - Cuisine of New England, Chocolate Chip Cookie, Maple Syrup, Jonnycake, Seafood Boil, Baked Beans, Clam Chowder (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Cuisine of New England, Chocolate chip cookie, Maple syrup, Jonnycake, Seafood boil, Baked beans, Clam chowder, Fried clams, Fiddlehead fern, Berliner, Clams casino, Cottage pie, Mincemeat, New Haven-style pizza, New England boiled dinner, Lobster roll, Apple butter, New England clam bake, Hasty pudding, Crab cake, Bulkie roll, Suanla chaoshou, Maple taffy, American chop suey, Frisbie Pie Company, Fluffernutter, Snickerdoodle, Boston cream pie, Brown bread, Crown Pilot Crackers, Grilled pizza, Steak bomb, Scrod, American "Greek" pizza, Corn chowder, Portuguese sweet bread, Coffee syrup, Parker House roll, Rhubarb pie, Clam cake, Stuffed clam, Pizza strips, Flummadiddle, New Englander. Excerpt: Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from the xylem sap of the sugar, red or black maple, although it can also be made from other maple species such as the bigleaf maple. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their stems and roots before the winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in the spring. Maple trees can then be tapped by boring holes into their trunks and collecting the exuded sap. Maple sap is processed by heating, which evaporates some of the water leaving the concentrated syrup. Quebec, Canada is the world's largest producer. Maple syrup was first collected and used by indigenous people of North America. The practice was adopted by European settlers, who gradually improved production methods. Technological improvements in the 1970s further refined syrup processing. Maple syrup is most often eaten with waffles, pancakes, oatmeal (porridge), and French toast. It is also used as an ingredient in baking, and as a sweetener and flavouring agent. Sucrose is its most prevalent sugar. The syrup is graded according to the Canada, United States, or Vermont scales based on its density and tra...