Sugar-on-Snow

We woke up yesterday to six inches of snow and a two-hour school delay. You can't let that much snow go to waste! Our land is flat-cleared farmland, so not much chance of sledding. We made sugar-on-snow instead... just like they did in the Little House books.

We boiled the maple syrup, using a candy thermometer to ensure we got it to 235-degrees.



He looks bored, but he's actually concentrating.



We poured the boiling syrup immediately onto cold, packed snow. Clean snow only, please!



It comes off chewy... like taffy... and oh so mapley sweet.

In other snow-related news, all the white stuff fell on a day when Dave is traveling, so I got to take a crack at using the tractor plow to clear the driveway. It was much faster than shoveling, but not without pitfalls: tractors that mysteriously won't start, icy ruts that trap tires, and snow so high that the plow won't budge.

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