Before maple syrup found its way onto stacks of Southern hot cakes, there was cane syrup. Made from pressed sugarcane juice cooked down in iron kettles, cane syrup was the South's table staple. Cane ...

Both maple syrup and sugar are pantry staple sweeteners, but they affect the body differently. What you can do: Rely on maple syrup as a sweetener, since it leads to less substantial blood sugar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This group of young workers (and canine companion) are gathering sap collected from hanging metal pails for transport to the ...

The Southern sugar maple closely resembles the sugar maple, but it is native to and does well in the Deep South. It is a smaller species, growing to about 25 to 30 feet, and has somewhat smaller ...

You probably know maple syrup as a topping for pancakes and waffles, but the uses of this hearty sweetener go beyond breakfast. Although it’s ideal for morning treats and baked goods, maple syrup is ...

Across many parts of the rural northeastern United States, early spring is marked by the scent of maple sap being boiled down into syrup and sugar. As early American literature scholar Mark Sturges ...

Few things in nature are as sweet as real maple syrup, which is made from the sap of a maple tree. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. Does maple syrup go bad? Maple ...