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 ...

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 ...

Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Maple syrup is ...

Those of us with a hankering for real maple syrup may be in for a sweet surprise this year. North American “sugar shacks” just finished a massive year for maple syrup production. Record sap yields in ...

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 ...

While sugar makers are busy tapping, boiling and bottling syrup, Baystaters are also keeping busy — eating liquid gold, that is. So-much-so, that about 50,000 to 60,000 gallons of maple syrup are ...