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Maple taffy. Molten syrup being poured on clean white snow to create the soft maple candy. Media: Maple taffy. Maple taffy (sometimes maple toffee in English-speaking Canada, tire d'érable or tire sur la neige in French-speaking Canada; also sugar on snow or candy on the snow or leather aprons in the United States) is a sugar candy made by ...
Powdered sugar. Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar and icing sugar is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains between 2% and 5% of an anti-caking agent —such as corn starch, potato starch or tricalcium phosphate [ 1 ][ 2 ] —to absorb moisture, prevent clumping, and ...
Maple syrup is a syrup made from the sap of maple trees. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in late winter and early spring. Maple trees are tapped by drilling holes into their trunks and collecting the sap, which is processed by heating ...
Maple syrup (25.9%) BeaverTails (9.3%) Peameal bacon and Timbits (7.4% each) According to an informal survey by The Globe and Mail conducted through Facebook from collected comments, users considered the following to be the Canadian national dish, with maple syrup likely above all the other foods if it were considered: [160] [better source needed]
Feb. 24—It's maple tapping season in Maine. Whether you are tapping maple trees for the first time in your yard and making your own syrup, or just enjoying the glut of delicious syrup at the ...
When I moved to the US, I missed Canadian foods like Smarties and mac-and-cheese meat. C. Welman/Shutterstock; Toasted Pictures/Shutterstock. I was born in Canada and moved to the US when I was ...
The sugar maple is one of the most important Canadian trees, being, with the black maple, the major source of sap for making maple syrup. [23] Other maple species can be used as a sap source for maple syrup, but some have lower sugar content and/or produce more cloudy syrup than these two. [23] In maple syrup production from Acer saccharum, the ...
Icing (food) Icing, or frosting, [ 1 ] is a sweet, often creamy glaze made of sugar with a liquid, such as water or milk, that is often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, cream cheese, or flavorings. It is used to coat or decorate baked goods, such as cakes. When it is used between layers of cake it is known as a filling.