{"id":1424,"date":"2010-11-25T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T00:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2010-11-25T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T00:44:39","slug":"maple-taffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/maple-taffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Taffy"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s been snowing ALL DAY and the kids came straight home from school today and I’ve not seen them inside yet….<\/p>\n

I was trying to think up a fun snack for them and I wondered if it would be easy to make maple taffy and really….it couldn’t be easier.<\/p>\n

You need real maple syrup and snow.<\/p>\n

Okay, you need to boil the maple syrup first, but really that’s not difficult. Most of the articles that I read mentioned a need for a candy thermometer but I just winged it and VOILA…….<\/p>\n

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You boil the maple syrup for a while. It needs to get over 260 degrees Fahrenheit and it needs to thicken up a little, so I probably boiled it for about 10 mins.<\/p>\n

Then I took my pot outside and found some clean snow and using a spoon, drizzled some onto the snow. Then I called Jeremy over and asked him to eat some of my yellow snow – which he emphatically declined….until I mentioned that it was maple candy.<\/p>\n

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Here it is in the snow….<\/p>\n

And after a few seconds….it comes out more solid, like this…..<\/p>\n

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And after you’ve taken a big, chewy bite, it looks more like this…<\/p>\n

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It’s chewy like toffee but tastes like maple syrup. So Delicious and so easy. <\/p>\n

Have you made this before? Am I just really behind the times?<\/p>\n

(part 2 of “Getting away from it all” coming soon<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s been snowing ALL DAY and the kids came straight home from school today and I’ve not seen them inside yet…. I was trying to think up a fun snack for them and I wondered if it would be easy to make maple taffy and really….it couldn’t be easier. You need real maple syrup … Continue reading “Maple Taffy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firsts","category-food","category-snow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}