When I was growing up we "tapped" the maple trees on our farm and boiled the sap down to make maple syrup. Yum! Nothing like it!
Sometimes when it would be snowing out, we would gather some "clean" snow and pack it in to a pan. My mom would boil some syrup until it was "hard crack stage"
( if you do not have a thermometer, boil the syrup continually. Keeping a bowl of cold water near by drop a drop or two of syrup into the water and see what it does. First it will be what's called soft ball, boil a little longer and it will become harder and harder. When the syrup reaches the correct hardness pour it in streams onto the packed snow .
The kids will love sucking on these ribbons of maple flavor!
This can be done with imitation syrup as well.
Have fun!
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