Maple Sugar Candy

Does anyone know how to make Maple Sugar Candy?Is it from boiling the sap beyond the point of syrup? Thanks

Yes, it will become candy as long as it doesn't become burnt first. I have never done it as we prefer the syrup, but I have accidentally boiled a batch or two to where they got a little gummy.
Zach

Thanks , Zachary, are you from Walton NY area?

yes you need to boil it past the syrup stage without burning it then cool it real fast most older folks take a cookie sheet and covor it with a layer of snow and pour strips of the candy on it

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Solid maple products come in a variety of forms.

Taffy
Soft and hard granulated candy
Maple butter

100 years ago, before granulated sugar was cheap and available, it was boiled down to brick stage. The bricks were shaved to produce something like the cane sugar we know today. My father was born in 1907 in MI. For the first ten years of his life, the only sweetener he knew was honey and maple, maybe sorghum too.

That brings back some memories.
I grew up with the stuff.
Grandpa sold a lot of maple syrup and once a year would "sugar off" a batch. All the family would come with food and have a picnic by the fire. Usually on Sunday after Church.
You'd eat yourself sick on syrup, taffy and then sugar then eat a couple of dill pickles so you could eat some more.
You keep boiling it through the taffy stage and eventually it turns to sugar. It's kind of an art getting it just right - not too hard, not too soft. Then he would grease a bunch of muffin pans and pour each hole about 1/3 full.
I don't remember him cooling the sugar in any special way. When it was cool he would tip the cakes out of the pans - bunch of hockey pucks of sugar. I remember he had stacks and stacks of muffin pans so I'm guessing we'd make about 50 lbs in a batch.
There was 8 of us kids and we did a Lot of sap picking. So we always got a share. Mom would grind it somehow and we'd sprinkle it on hot oatmeal for breakfast - with whole milk with the thick cream on top from the neighbor's dairy farm.
We would work for Grandpa as kids, picking berries, bailing boats at his resort, stacking wood, etc, etc and he would give us a quarter or 50 cents plus a cake of maple sugar for our labor.
The cake of sugar was kind of a prize and we'd hoard it away from our brothers and sisters.
Take a hammer and break the cake into pieces and suck on it like candy.

My great grandmother could remember when the price of white sugar got down to where they could trade even for maple sugar. They though it was an excellent deal.

It's just maple sap boiled beyond the syrup stage.
Don't have the numbers right here but you can take maple syrup and boil it to make candy. If you try this start with a small amount of pure maple syrup, as this foams up real big while you are boiling it.
I make maple syrup every year, but have only made maple candy a couple a times.

Careful you don't burn the mixture when trying to sugar out syrup.
Try as small batch. Maple sugar is so concentrated it will nearly send a normal person into a diabetic coma.