Try a Bismark, a sugared donut filled with raspberry jelly and whipped cream. Since some of you also know me as the Rhode Island donut girl,– stop at West’s Bakery right up the road when you leave. This changes year to year depending on the weather, so be sure to check their Facebook page to see if they are open. Uncle Buck’s is open during thawing season on Saturdays and Sundays 10-4. Of all the sugar houses we visited this spring, we learned the most here in this small sugar house in southern Rhode Island.
#Best maple syrup free
While he was busy making the syrup, his wife was busy turning the syrup into all sorts of tasty treats, all of which you are free to try. He spent a lot of time explaining everything to us and the kids learned a lot of science. He and his wife were happy to educate us on the science and skill of syrup making. Uncle Buck has been making his syrup right next to his home for decades. Uncle Buck’s Sugar House Uncle Buck’s Sugar Houseĭriving up the residential street to arrive at Uncle Buck’s was the perfect introduction to syrup making. They told us their favorite and I headed there with my friend, Angie, and our kids on a Saturday morning in early March. A plan was born– I was finally going to get into a maple syrup house!Īn Accessible, Educational Sugar Shack in Rhode IslandĪ few weeks before our visit to Maine for Maine Maple Sunday, my friend told me about a few sugar houses they visited in Rhode Island, where I live. We recently visited Quebec’s Winter Carnival with our friends from Maine who told us that Maine has a whole weekend when the maple sugar shacks are open to the public- Maine Maple Sunday. Now it makes sense why it is hard to get into a sugar house. Some work mainstream jobs, others are farmers. Definitely makes you appreciate your pancakes more!Īll the syrup producers that I encountered make their syrup as a labor of love, a hobby, even if they make a profit on it. It takes a lot of sap to produce maple syrup- around 40 gallons of sap produce one gallon of syrup. This generally takes place in old wood buildings– not sure why this is true– called sugarhouses, or sometimes, sugar shacks.
This is done in a few ways, but the serious syrup makers do it with a large, gleaming evaporator. The sap is then boiled down to produce syrup. This explains why New Englanders tap their maple trees in February and March when nights freeze.
This occurs when there is a thaw after a point of freezing. The sap is extracted by putting a tap (straw) in the tree while the sap is climbing. Before fancy evaporators, sap was boiled into syrup over an open fire.ĭid you know that 65% of maple syrup in the US is produced in New England? The sticky, sweet liquid comes from the maple tree, which is ubiquitous in many New England yards. I have inquired over the fifteen years I have lived here and found it hard to figure out if a sugar house was open and offering tours. I was also determined to get into a maple sugar house and see maple syrup being made. (Read my New England Bucket List for all of those activities.) This year I finally got to wade into a cranberry bog. I quickly had a lobster roll, but many of the quintessential New England activities had eluded me. Being a transplant, when I first moved to New England I wanted to try all things that are especially New England.
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