Comments on: Sugar on Snow

By: Happy Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder | Food & Think

Happy Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder | Food & Think — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:55:09 +0000

[...] my veins as I thought about tapping the trees for maple syrup, then boiling molasses and sugar, and pouring it over the snow. Laura and Mary made “circles and curlicues, and squiggledy things, and these hardened at [...]

By: Eating Snow | Food & Think

Eating Snow | Food & Think — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:58:01 +0000

[...] ill effects. And although snow is more like a plate than an ingredient in my favorite winter treat, sugar on snow, I always end up eating some of it in the [...]

By: What is Your Favorite County Fair Food? | Food & Think

What is Your Favorite County Fair Food? | Food & Think — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:13:52 +0000

[...] loved best. There was also a “maple sugar shack” which was pretty much heaven on earth: sugar on snow in paper trays, maple milkshakes and maple candies, maple coffee and donuts. The best of the best [...]

By: Charles F.

Charles F. — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:03:24 +0000

Eating snow out of a trough, no thanks. I do enjoy Vermont maple creamees, though.

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:12:21 +0000

In Canada, it is called Maple Taffy in English, or “la tire sur la neige” en Français (which means approximately “draw on the snow”).

By: AaronS

AaronS — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:04:33 +0000

Reminds me of something we made in Tennessee many years ago: Snow Cream.

It was a concoction of snow, sugar, vanilla flavoring, and I think eggs. In any case, TOTALLY CRAZY GOOD.

I miss it. You just don’t see that many snows in our part of Tennessee anymore. Global warming? Ah, that’s another post.

Thanks for reminding us all of the joys of the snow.
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:25:00 +0000

Sure, have you read any of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books? This blog entry (it’s not mine) has the excerpt when Laura has sugar on snow
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/food-in-books/the-hungry-reader-maple-syrup-and-the-little-house-in-the-big-woods-045424
I read these books many times as a kid, and her description of the hot syrup being poured on the snow has always stick with me, even though I have never been able to try it myself.
If you haven’t read her books, and enjoy reading you may want to give them a look, they are descriptive in a way that will give you a better idea of life in the late 1800′s than many autobiographies written for adults.

By: AaronS

AaronS — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:45:41 +0000

Reminds me of something we made in Tennessee many years ago: Snow Cream.

It was a concoction of snow, sugar, vanilla flavoring, and I think eggs. In any case, TOTALLY CRAZY GOOD.

I miss it. You just don’t see that many snows in our part of Tennessee anymore. Global warming? Ah, that’s another post.

Thanks for reminding us all of the joys of the snow.