sap-season

Updated: July 17, 2025

This is called 'the sugar-camp, and the sap-season lasts five or six weeks." "And why is it boiled?" "Boiling drives the water off in vapor, and leaves the sugar behind in the pot." "And do they stay in the woods there all the time?" asked Malcolm, with great interest. "What lots of fun they must have, with the big fires and the snow and as much maple-sugar as ever they want to eat!

Ella Rodman Church - Among the Trees at Elmridge