Making maple taffy at Winterlude, Ottawa

Ottawa's annual Winterlude festival takes place in February, around the same time as the area's maple trees begin to offer their first taste of sap, which gets turned into syrup and, as seen here, taffy.

Maple taffy (tire d'érable in French) is a confection made by boiling maple sap past the point where it would form maple syrup but not so long that it becomes maple butter or maple sugar. It is part of traditional culture in Quebec and northern New England. In both Quebec and Northern New England, it is poured onto the snow and then lifted either with a small wooden stick, such as a popsicle stick, or a metal dinner fork.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_taffy)

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• maple
• taffy
• sugar
• bush
• ottawa
• canada
• winterlude
• dragfyre

[cockerspanielowner]

I'm a proud Canadian someone from Quebec came and made us this

Go Quebec Go! :)

[quading1234]

Does normal syrup work?

[TheGreengrass9]

I had some before! XD

[iwonttell19888]

I want some soooo bad right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MyLaura999]

Simply delicious, this is the best pure maple taffy, I love it!

[ShinobiXSkull]

Thing is, sometimes when people do it, the maple syrup sinks through the snow or crushed ice... I dunno.

[dragfyre]

yeah, that's pretty much it. they'll take hot maple syrup and pour it onto snow, and then pick it up with a stick.

[ShinobiXSkull]

They make it by boiling maple syrup and then pouring it on the snow. Not sure LOL, check out wiki or try googling it.

[yojoblingbliss]

how do u make it?

[keepsmiling100]

muummm. i want some now!