Ingredients
- 4 cup ice cubes
- 1 cup pure maple syrup
Preparation
Baking Directions:
Pouring maple syrup over cold snow was a common sweet in early America.
Even before Europeans arrived, it was noted that Native Americans poured sap from their "sugar bushes" over cold snow to eat.
This sweet is a specialty of the maple harvest season, particularly in the Northeast, when sap gathered that day was heated and poured over ice cold snow, which then froze into a kind of candy, or what was called "jack wax.
" Laura Ingalls Wilder referenced it in her "Little House in the Big Woods," 1932:"Grandma .
poured hot syrup on each plate of snow.
It cooled into soft candy, and as fast as it cooled they ate it.
They could eat all they wanted, for maple sugar never hurt anybody.
"To prepare:Pour maple syrup into a small sauce pot and warm until syrup reaches 235 degrees F on a candy thermometer.
Meanwhile, using an electric or hand-crank ice shaver, finely crush the ice cubes into "snow," one cup at a time into a bowl.
Divide the shavings among four plates.
Garnish each plate with edible flowers and lemon and lime zest.
Drizzle maple syrup over each plate of ice.
Serve immediately.
Option: If you do not have an ice shaver, you can use a box grater, although the ice will get soggy very quickly.
First, fill a clean 1-liter milk carton with water and freeze overnight.
Peel away the carton box and, using a clean kitchen towel, grasp the ice block and grate on the fine side of a box grater to create the shaved ice.
