maple sugar
Boiled sap crystals
Maple sugar is a sweetener made by boiling down the sap of sugar maple trees until most of the water evaporates, leaving behind crystallized sugar.
It predates refined cane sugar in North American cooking and was traditionally produced by Indigenous peoples and later by colonists.
Maple sugar has a distinctive caramel-like flavor and can be used as a substitute for granulated sugar in baking and cooking.
She sprinkled maple sugar over her oatmeal.
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