Kids love the idea of a snow day, and how fun is it when mom actually LET’S them bring snow inside the house? (Didn’t you ever try to preserve snowballs in a ziplock bag in the freezer?)
This is what intrigued us about this recipe submitted by one of the contestants in our Beekman 1802 Heirloom Recipe Contest.
We tried this in our own test kitchen with a group of kids and found they loved the process and the product.
Maple Snow Candy
Put 2 cups of real maple syrup in a pan and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer to 235 degrees on a candy thermometer (if you don’t have a candy thermometer, cook until ‘soft ball’ stage, which means a spoonful of the syrup dropped into a cup of cold water forms a soft ball).
While the syrup is simmering, take a two 9-by-13-inch cake pans and fill them with clean snow, packed down well. When the syrup reaches softball, slowly pour the hot syrup in ribbons onto the packed snow.
With clean fingers, pick up a section of the caramel-like candy and pop it in your mouth.
There’s no need to complain about a winter’s day. Make the most of it.
Need more snowy recipes, check out our instructions for delicious Snow Cream
Thank you guys so much for sharing. It’s looks like so much fun, I can’t wait try it!
My grandmother use to say. Go get me some fresh snow and I will make you some Jack Wax. We would take her largest dishpan, fill it with snow and she would drizzled our own warm maple syrup over it. We would scoop it up with our fingers. So sticky but so good. There never was any leftover. Living in upstate NY very close to Sharon Springs, we always had fresh snow and plenty of it. Fantastic memories of 65 years ago.
Boy does that take me back! When I was a kid, we made our own maple syrup and snow candy was something that we looked forward to every winter….almost as much fun as making your own icecream. It’s all in the process as much as the result..Thanks, Josh and Brent for sharing. Deb Catello, Verona,NY