I love how you don’t want to waste a drop. Feels like it’s honoring not only the work involved in producing the syrup to begin with, but also the contribution of your trees!
@@tobykassulke2385 2h now. I think Glen won't realize this until the morning or even later.. I'm curious to know if he'll delete the video or just edit the name and thumbnail
I am so amazed at how much sugar you got from that bottle, I never would have thought you would get that much. I grow and dry my own herbs in my garden and I fill a large cookie sheet with stems of rosemary and it barely fills a small spice jar.
My cousin taps over 200 maple trees on her property and boils it down for syrup every year. She has already begun tapping her trees. I’m not a drinker (although, I find Cocktails After Dark fascinating) but my cousin swears that pure maple sap mixed with gin is a really lovely drink. You might want to give it a try.
Went to a maple sugar festival last year and a reenactor showed us how the early french settlers learned how to tap trees and bowl down the sap to syrup and sugar from the indigenous peoples. Very interesting and I'm glad you showed me how to do it in a modern kitchen. Maple syrup and the maple sugar add the best flavor to everything.
I love this. My late father used to tap trees on his hunting property. He made a boiling system -welded up a barrel into a cooking vessel and was able to tap quite a few trees every year. For many, many years I had ample maple syrup. I might have to g I’ve this a try even though I have to purchase the syrup= it just looks like something fun I need to try
This is right down my alley. Every Christmas (because it’s the only time I can find it where I live) I have to have maple sugar candy. It’s a signature Christmas flavor for me!
Believe it or not, maple candy uses almost exactly the same recipe! You want to stop boiling it a little sooner (around 240 degrees F instead of 260), and you just mix it until it's barely starting to crystalize, then quickly pour it into your molds. It sets pretty quickly once it's started to crystalize, so you gotta pour fast!
I know this is 2 years old but I needed to make this sugar for some new flavored bagels I;m doing. I've been a chef for 42 years and never seen this. Thank you!!! I always say you learn something new every day.
One thing I miss about living in SW Ontario is going to places like Jakeman's and other maple syrup farms. One day I hope to bring my partner for a visit from BC at the right time of year so she can taste and smell what it's like to get the good stuff straight from the source!
So cool! I've seen how maple sugar is done on a more commercial scale but I'm fascinated by the how-to of doing it in a home kitchen (albeit a kitchen much nicer than will ever be seen in my home!). Great video.
@@punkdigerati Yes, I know--he did a behind the scenes, tour the studio video a while back. My comment was meant to be gently teasing but I find tone difficult to convey on the internet.
There aren't many things more Canadian than this, and I'm not talking about hockey! Thanks for doing these, helps me remember some of the important things about this country.
Glen, you have multiple channels now. Would you ever consider another channel about your production work? Your camera gear,how you shoot, lighting, the business side, etc?
Mmmmmmmm maple syrup is liquid gold in the culinary world imo. If I lived in Canada, you couldn’t trust me around your maple trees at tree tapping time lol Mmmmmm delicious!!!! Maple sugar sounds heavenly! I wonder if those maple pearls would be a decadent substitute for regular pearl sugar for Belgian waffles?
Some people say to add butter to jam while cooking to prevent foam from forming but in my experience it makes the jam spoil faster. I imagine the same thing would happen if you added butter maple sugar.
My maternal aunt and uncle had a "sugar bush" (as they called their maple trees) on their farm in Upper Peninsula Michigan. It smelled like heaven in their syrup making shed!! (A lot of work!!)
Dang, this looks great! I'm probably never going to get the opportunity to try this for myself, but I always enjoy seeing this sort of content. If the opportunity arises later, then I can trot out the knowledge. EDIT to add: In addition to good tea-sweetener, those little nuggets of Maple Candy crystals would also probably make an amazing Old-Fashioned cocktail!
One trick for using those thermal probe style thermometers is to attach a binder clip to the side of the pot or pan your using and use the clip handles to hold the probe in place off of the bottom.
Can't wait to tap my trees in a few more weeks (Longer winter here in Newfoundland) but in the meantime I am going to pick up a cheap bottle of maple syrup from Costco and make this.
We do have a friend that makes use maple syrup every year. But I was wondering can you make the sugar with the maple syrup you can buy at Costco in the jug just wondering. I will share this interesting recipe with my maple sugar buddy. Thanks so much. I will be using this sugar on a creme brûlée and in butter tarts…
Love maple sugar (though mine is purchased). Nothing, I mean nothing, is better to sweeten porridge oats and many other things. So interesting to see how it is made. I'm in the US, but thankfully my state makes some darn good maple syrup, too. Thank you for another great video.
A few years ago I bought a bottle of maple water from the local Korean market and it was fantastic. Then I found that people tap the trees the same way they tap them for syrup and you can get quite a bit of water and it has a subtle hint of maple taste and supposedly the water is quite healthy and good for you.
Most of the big Maple producers (Big Maple) use reverse osmosis on the raw sap to remove the majority of water to save on boil time / cost - Maple Water has become an important secondary product for that 'leftover' water.
How to prevent brown sugar from clumping into a block (and release it if it's solidified already): Put a slice of bread in the container on top of the sugar. Sounds silly but I swear it's worked every time for me. If it's a solid chunk it took a bit to loosen once I stuck the slice, but eventually it just loosened. And any brown sugar container I've had (properly sealed of course) with a slice of bread in it has never solidified on me no matter how long it was in my cupboard. And I don't bake often so I've had one container for over a year. Absolutely no idea what sort of magic goes on for it to work, but it does work.
I've done this. So cool to know that it's actually Maple Sugar. Not messed up maple fudge. Which we did purposely a few times a year. But, never did I know what my mother used it for. Thank you Glen for showing us how to make Maple Sugar. 🥰
You're right when you say this would be too expensive for a lot of people. I'm one of those people. But this was so great to watch, and see you get enjoyment from it. Good on you!
When I get to Sam's club soon I'm planning on buying a quart of maple syrup and I plan to make this sugar..I make individual egg custards weekly and add near half the sugar with granulated maple sugar...It's so delicious..I also add a wee bit of syrup too!..
Learn something new today, always thought maple sugar was made same way brown sugar was with molasses only adding the maple syrup to the sugar. I bet your extra mix would also be good to add to confectionary sugar when making an icing. Thank you
living in the mid-west usa pure maple syrup is in few supply and expensive. After watching this video, i did a little reasearch and it turns out a caddo sugar maple tree grows in this region. I have to put one in my garden now to have maple on tap.
I wonder what the maple flavored simple syrup would be like in an old fashioned. Depending on the bourbon used it could be quite a complementary flavor.
Great video! Now I want to try this with rose syrup. We used to get rose sugar from Bitter and Zart when we lived in Frankfurt, Germany and have been researching ways to make our own. It isn’t made from just putting petals in a jar with white sugar. My great grandmother (from England) and grandmother in Grafton, W.V. used to process roses into rose syrup then sugar for groups of women during W.W. II. I imagine that was the only way they could pool enough sugar to make the syrup. The whole thing was pretty labor intensive and hot according to my mother. Store bought rose syrup should make things considerably easier. I don‘t know how you feel about floral flavors, but it could be good for rimming a glass for something like strawberry rose lemonade with vodka.
This was very interesting! Unfotunately the sugar maple doesn´t grow here, up north in Sweden (I live at the same latitude as Fairbanks Alaska). You may see some forest maples in gardens here and there but not in the wild. But I got this idea of trying to make suger from birch sap! Just have to wait for a month or two until late spring. Great channel!
Our local Costco currently has some amazing bourbon aged maple syrup, I might have to give this a try using that. From what I've been able to look up, Maple trees should be able to grow up where I am but I've only heard of any in the southern parts of my State, I might try planting some anyhow, even though I'll probably be dead before they are productive.
Terrific video! I know there are different grades of sugar from beet sugar. Have you tried dehydrating the left over beet and then grinding it to a powder as well? The suggestion below for maple sugar was terrific and would save all the drying days.
I thought you were going to make spreadable maple sugar that they sell in a can. Maybe you could show us that in the future? I live in the U.S. and that maple butter as we call it, we can't buy here. Love you man.
Thanks for the instructions Glen...I did it, ! I have to say using my old candy thermometer was torture,it didn't fit my pan well and I'm shocked I didn't burn my syrup..It turned out delicious...messy for sure beating it but yum....Thanks!
There are a few channels out there that only accept sponsorships from companies that they have reached out to after using the product. There are also too many that will accept any sponsorship they can get. How many sponsored videos have there been for the fabulous, so sharp it was banned, Huusk Japan knife, that looks nothing like any Japanese knife I have ever seen?
I'm one of the first 10 to comment and I'm going to have to edit when it's over lol Finished! I can't wait to see these recipes coming up. And this so makes me miss home. We don't have Maple trees where I am.
I love how you don’t want to waste a drop. Feels like it’s honoring not only the work involved in producing the syrup to begin with, but also the contribution of your trees!
Always appreciate the RUclips 16:94K MPEG 4 content, thanks Glen.
Gutted he left us in the dark about the sample rate and bit depth though 😪
Earliest I have been to a video. With in 2 min of launch. It still has the MPEG 4 title
Still here even an hour afterwards lol
@@tobykassulke2385 2h now. I think Glen won't realize this until the morning or even later..
I'm curious to know if he'll delete the video or just edit the name and thumbnail
I'm guessing this was mischeduled...
Totally messed up the schedule.
How the maple turned into the sugar was one of the coolest things ive seen in a while
Cinematic Maple Syrup experience, the way it was always meant to be
I wish Maple Syrup wasnt so expensive for us Americans. I would LOVE to try this!
If it wasn't for the cartel (Government Supported Mafia) that controls Canadian Maple Syrup prices, it would be cheaper.
@@JerryB507 only in Quebec, we buy from small producers in Ontario but it’s still not cheap.
Vermont and Maine have many small producers.
imagine, we are actually finishing some as I type this!
I am so amazed at how much sugar you got from that bottle, I never would have thought you would get that much. I grow and dry my own herbs in my garden and I fill a large cookie sheet with stems of rosemary and it barely fills a small spice jar.
Tuesday? How lucky are we? Very!
Glad to know how to make the crystalline form of maple sugar. Just in case.
Glad to see you aren’t the only one of the Maxwell House isn’t the only thing ‘good to the last drop’😂😂😂
My cousin taps over 200 maple trees on her property and boils it down for syrup every year. She has already begun tapping her trees. I’m not a drinker (although, I find Cocktails After Dark fascinating) but my cousin swears that pure maple sap mixed with gin is a really lovely drink. You might want to give it a try.
Went to a maple sugar festival last year and a reenactor showed us how the early french settlers learned how to tap trees and bowl down the sap to syrup and sugar from the indigenous peoples. Very interesting and I'm glad you showed me how to do it in a modern kitchen. Maple syrup and the maple sugar add the best flavor to everything.
Love adding mpeg to my syrups too 😋
Next time I see this done will be the second time. I love seeing things I've never seen before. Thank you Glen.
Who else was early to see the title?
Making Maple Sugar RUclips 16:94K MPEG 4
Cooking is magic! Take hot sticky liquid, beat the daylights out of it and voila - sugar crystals.
I love this. My late father used to tap trees on his hunting property. He made a boiling system -welded up a barrel into a cooking vessel and was able to tap quite a few trees every year. For many, many years I had ample maple syrup. I might have to g I’ve this a try even though I have to purchase the syrup= it just looks like something fun I need to try
This is right down my alley. Every Christmas (because it’s the only time I can find it where I live) I have to have maple sugar candy. It’s a signature Christmas flavor for me!
It is wonderful!
Believe it or not, maple candy uses almost exactly the same recipe! You want to stop boiling it a little sooner (around 240 degrees F instead of 260), and you just mix it until it's barely starting to crystalize, then quickly pour it into your molds. It sets pretty quickly once it's started to crystalize, so you gotta pour fast!
Love videos like this one. A technique I never knew.
I wasn't expecting a video to drop at the stroke of midnight!
I know this is 2 years old but I needed to make this sugar for some new flavored bagels I;m doing. I've been a chef for 42 years and never seen this. Thank you!!! I always say you learn something new every day.
Who knew it was this easy to make maple sugar? Very cool Glen!
One thing I miss about living in SW Ontario is going to places like Jakeman's and other maple syrup farms. One day I hope to bring my partner for a visit from BC at the right time of year so she can taste and smell what it's like to get the good stuff straight from the source!
So cool! I've seen how maple sugar is done on a more commercial scale but I'm fascinated by the how-to of doing it in a home kitchen (albeit a kitchen much nicer than will ever be seen in my home!). Great video.
@@punkdigerati Yes, I know--he did a behind the scenes, tour the studio video a while back. My comment was meant to be gently teasing but I find tone difficult to convey on the internet.
Came back to this video after watching Glenn makes maple breakfast cake ❤️
There aren't many things more Canadian than this, and I'm not talking about hockey! Thanks for doing these, helps me remember some of the important things about this country.
Makes me want to try this with Store bought Maple Syrup.
Very interesting, especially for those of us who would never have the opportunity to do this. Thank you.
Early video, score! I had no idea this was how maple sugar was made, seems fairly simple.
You signal spring better then Wiarton Willy :)
Always well done
Glen, you have multiple channels now. Would you ever consider another channel about your production work? Your camera gear,how you shoot, lighting, the business side, etc?
Mmmmmmmm maple syrup is liquid gold in the culinary world imo. If I lived in Canada, you couldn’t trust me around your maple trees at tree tapping time lol Mmmmmm delicious!!!! Maple sugar sounds heavenly!
I wonder if those maple pearls would be a decadent substitute for regular pearl sugar for Belgian waffles?
Some people say to add butter to jam while cooking to prevent foam from forming but in my experience it makes the jam spoil faster. I imagine the same thing would happen if you added butter maple sugar.
now I want to make this ...i remember tapping trees when i was little with my grandparents....i bet its good coffee 😊
My maternal aunt and uncle had a "sugar bush" (as they called their maple trees) on their farm in Upper Peninsula Michigan. It smelled like heaven in their syrup making shed!! (A lot of work!!)
Congrats on 500K subs Glen and Julie!
Congratulations on 500K subscribers!!!
Maple sugar cotton candy is absolutely heavenly.
Dang, this looks great! I'm probably never going to get the opportunity to try this for myself, but I always enjoy seeing this sort of content. If the opportunity arises later, then I can trot out the knowledge.
EDIT to add: In addition to good tea-sweetener, those little nuggets of Maple Candy crystals would also probably make an amazing Old-Fashioned cocktail!
Fascinating to watch. I like learning new things.
Here in the Deep South, that stuff is expensive. I love real Maple Syrup. Dark and Light both.
One trick for using those thermal probe style thermometers is to attach a binder clip to the side of the pot or pan your using and use the clip handles to hold the probe in place off of the bottom.
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That magic moment when it converts from liquid to crystals, reminds me of my high school chemistry class days.
Can't wait to tap my trees in a few more weeks (Longer winter here in Newfoundland) but in the meantime I am going to pick up a cheap bottle of maple syrup from Costco and make this.
Cool now I know how to make maple sugar sugar. Next time I’ll buy 2 maple syrup and use one for making the sugar granules.😊💖 Thank you. Safe flying!
I love this idea. I put a small piece of dried bread in my golden brown sugar jar and it never gets chunky
Thanks!
I envy anyone that has their own maple trees. That looks delish.
I'll wait for the MKV version. ❤️
When he said that he gets syrup for the price of wood and propane that hit home. We tap 170 and still evey drop is precious
We do have a friend that makes use maple syrup every year. But I was wondering can you make the sugar with the maple syrup you can buy at Costco in the jug just wondering. I will share this interesting recipe with my maple sugar buddy. Thanks so much. I will be using this sugar on a creme brûlée and in butter tarts…
Im not Glen but you can its all the same stuff just absurdly expensive to do if you dont have a cheap supply like your friend or glen
Holy moly are you lucky! I wish I could have something as amazing as Maple sugar in my life.
Love maple sugar (though mine is purchased). Nothing, I mean nothing, is better to sweeten porridge oats and many other things. So interesting to see how it is made. I'm in the US, but thankfully my state makes some darn good maple syrup, too. Thank you for another great video.
This video has made me insanely jealous.
Wish I lived in Canada
A few years ago I bought a bottle of maple water from the local Korean market and it was fantastic. Then I found that people tap the trees the same way they tap them for syrup and you can get quite a bit of water and it has a subtle hint of maple taste and supposedly the water is quite healthy and good for you.
Most of the big Maple producers (Big Maple) use reverse osmosis on the raw sap to remove the majority of water to save on boil time / cost - Maple Water has become an important secondary product for that 'leftover' water.
That exact temp is going to be elevation dependent. Since the temperature depends upon sugar content, you aiming for a specific % of sugar in the pot.
Puts me in mind of the packages my grandmother's family would send to her with her favorite tea and maple sugar inside.
How to prevent brown sugar from clumping into a block (and release it if it's solidified already): Put a slice of bread in the container on top of the sugar.
Sounds silly but I swear it's worked every time for me. If it's a solid chunk it took a bit to loosen once I stuck the slice, but eventually it just loosened. And any brown sugar container I've had (properly sealed of course) with a slice of bread in it has never solidified on me no matter how long it was in my cupboard. And I don't bake often so I've had one container for over a year. Absolutely no idea what sort of magic goes on for it to work, but it does work.
@@cynthiafisher9907 Nope. Eventually the bread gets super hard, but you just swap it out. Takes a while though.
Apples do the same thing. Though not stored long term, a piece of apple added to rock-hard brown sugar softens it right up.
Congratulations on 500k subs!
I've done this. So cool to know that it's actually Maple Sugar. Not messed up maple fudge. Which we did purposely a few times a year. But, never did I know what my mother used it for. Thank you Glen for showing us how to make Maple Sugar. 🥰
I bet that sugar would work stunningly in pancakes, waffles, and French toast.
You are so lucky to have sugar maples in your yard! Good for you that you use every drop of it!!
We also have maple trees my Dad taps them and boils it down and makes syrup it’s amazing
You're right when you say this would be too expensive for a lot of people. I'm one of those people. But this was so great to watch, and see you get enjoyment from it. Good on you!
I will never be able to do this, but I enjoyed this so much. Thank you 💓
Now I’m craving maple fudge.
So useful! I can't believe I've never done given the amount of maple syrup we have. Thanks!!
I would’ve added milk and rice to the pot and made pudding… yum!
😲Wow, that is like magic. Thank you soooo very much. Watching from Quebec, Canada
When I get to Sam's club soon I'm planning on buying a quart of maple syrup and I plan to make this sugar..I make individual egg custards weekly and add near half the sugar with granulated maple sugar...It's so delicious..I also add a wee bit of syrup too!..
Learn something new today, always thought maple sugar was made same way brown sugar was with molasses only adding the maple syrup to the sugar. I bet your extra mix would also be good to add to confectionary sugar when making an icing. Thank you
Fascinating video! I never knew that's how maple sugar was made
Wow, I love making things from scratch! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, it is so interesting to see how things are made.
living in the mid-west usa pure maple syrup is in few supply and expensive. After watching this video, i did a little reasearch and it turns out a caddo sugar maple tree grows in this region. I have to put one in my garden now to have maple on tap.
I wonder what the maple flavored simple syrup would be like in an old fashioned. Depending on the bourbon used it could be quite a complementary flavor.
That was cool. I initially thought you were going to make it the same way as brown sugar process. I learned something today.
This video was the most satisfying!
What a great idea.
Great video! Now I want to try this with rose syrup. We used to get rose sugar from Bitter and Zart when we lived in Frankfurt, Germany and have been researching ways to make our own. It isn’t made from just putting petals in a jar with white sugar. My great grandmother (from England) and grandmother in Grafton, W.V. used to process roses into rose syrup then sugar for groups of women during W.W. II. I imagine that was the only way they could pool enough sugar to make the syrup. The whole thing was pretty labor intensive and hot according to my mother. Store bought rose syrup should make things considerably easier. I don‘t know how you feel about floral flavors, but it could be good for rimming a glass for something like strawberry rose lemonade with vodka.
Your own maple syrup/sugar. What a satisfying, rewarding and really awesome experience. Very cool.
This was very interesting! Unfotunately the sugar maple doesn´t grow here, up north in Sweden (I live at the same latitude as Fairbanks Alaska). You may see some forest maples in gardens here and there but not in the wild. But I got this idea of trying to make suger from birch sap! Just have to wait for a month or two until late spring. Great channel!
Our local Costco currently has some amazing bourbon aged maple syrup, I might have to give this a try using that. From what I've been able to look up, Maple trees should be able to grow up where I am but I've only heard of any in the southern parts of my State, I might try planting some anyhow, even though I'll probably be dead before they are productive.
Very impressive Glen. I really wish that I was your nextdoor neighbor.
Terrific video! I know there are different grades of sugar from beet sugar. Have you tried dehydrating the left over beet and then grinding it to a powder as well? The suggestion below for maple sugar was terrific and would save all the drying days.
fun video. I've made maple syrup my whole life but I've never tried to make maple sugar. I may have to try with some of last year's syrup.
I thought you were going to make spreadable maple sugar that they sell in a can. Maybe you could show us that in the future? I live in the U.S. and that maple butter as we call it, we can't buy here. Love you man.
Thank you for explaining in a clear and concise way. I learned something new and interesting.
I love these early uploads. :)
This is so timely. I have a bunch of recipes that call for maple sugar. Now I can make my own. Thanks!
Glen you're such a great dude. God bless you.
Making Maple Sugar RUclips 16:9 4K MPEG 4 is one of the videos of all time
Maple and maple sugar are amazing! Perfect in coffee. 🤓
Thanks for the instructions Glen...I did it, ! I have to say using my old candy thermometer was torture,it didn't fit my pan well and I'm shocked I didn't burn my syrup..It turned out delicious...messy for sure beating it but yum....Thanks!
this seems delicious! too bad I can't get maple syrup without paying a fortune here in Brazil. but maybe some day I'll be able to try it in Canada :)
Ya I live in bc, it would be gold here
Love your videos Glen! take care :)
First, yum! And don't feel you can't ever do sponsorships, just make sure it's a company or product you respect. 😉
There are a few channels out there that only accept sponsorships from companies that they have reached out to after using the product.
There are also too many that will accept any sponsorship they can get. How many sponsored videos have there been for the fabulous, so sharp it was banned, Huusk Japan knife, that looks nothing like any Japanese knife I have ever seen?
So I made this and it turned out great! Thanks, Glen ⭐️
Love your video. Now to get the energy and time to do this. Thank you.
Wow! So easy. Thanks friend. Going to try this today.
I'm one of the first 10 to comment and I'm going to have to edit when it's over lol
Finished! I can't wait to see these recipes coming up. And this so makes me miss home. We don't have Maple trees where I am.