Maple sirup

The thirteen gallons honey yielded one and a half gallons of the skimmings, to which I added as much water and nearly a pint of skim milk, put it into a kettle, put that over the fire, heat, skimmed, and fined it down, the like as clarifying maple sirup, for sugar.

This evening, when the meat was cooked, the mother brought out a birch-bark bucket full of maple sirup.

Maple sirups may have a variety of flavors ranging from weak to strong and from sour to metallic, depending on the number and kind of bacteria in the sap and their activity on the sap components.