Kaytastrophe said:
It's a French Canadian thing. My family used to do this all the time. It's also called tier (sounds like tear). But yeah its a big thing in Quebec and French Canadian parts of the country.
actually, we call it tire. it's delicious, but only the one that you have at a sugar shack, otherwise the one that they sell in store often have a 25% glucose, and are not 100% maple, wich change the taste a lot. i live in Québec, and it's a very normal thing to me.
every stage of the maple water is delicious.
-pure water, which is what come out of the tree
-reduit (reduction ? i'm not sure what would be the englsh word for it) which is the phaase of the boiling that come just before it's syrup
-syrup, of course
-taffy
-butter, it's soft sugar, you can spread it on a toast.
-hard sugar, you can chew on it, they often make candy out of this
-hard candy.
to bad however that we a have a neverending winter this year, and that the maple dont flow yet