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I was watching an episode of the food channel and they were boiling pure maple and putting a little in the snow on a stick to make candy, I wonder if the native americans did that? to make a type of sweet treat like candy?
I don't know, but to make maple syrup, you must boil the sap for hours. Native Americans did not have iron pots and pans before the invasion. It would have been difficult to boil sap that long in a skin bag.
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I don't know about Native Americans, but I do know that's VERY popular here in Montreal (Canada). In fact, in grade school, we'd have a once-per-winter field trip to a "Cabane a Sucre" (sugar shack).
Here are some of them, along with pictures of the "candy on a stick."
ETA: sorry, I see you already had a link to the natives and their birch baskets and your question was related specifically to candy. I haven't had my coffee yet.
the maple on a stick is natures nectar , the first lolly pop
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