Maple Syrup Festival Experience
With the arrival of spring, the earth awakens, the days become noticeably longer, and the maple trees begin to produce precious maple syrup. In this sweet season, head to Uxbridge to attend the annual Pefferlaw Creek Farms Maple Syrup Festival to explore the mysteries of maple syrup and experience the maple syrup-making process firsthand.
Pefferlaw Creek Farms📍Address: 12300 Concession 6, Uxbridge, ON L9P 1R2, about an hour's drive from Toronto. The Maple Syrup Festival is held every March and April. This year's event will be held every Saturday and Sunday from March to April 19. The entrance fee is 10 Canadian dollars, and you can also enjoy a maple taffy.
As soon as you step into Pefferlaw Creek Farms, the air is filled with a light woody scent and sweet maple syrup aroma. There is a vast maple forest here. Every spring when the maple trees begin to "cry", the farm begins to busy itself with making maple syrup. In the farm house, there is someone who explains the process of making maple syrup.
🔍Maple syrup production process
Collecting sap: In early spring, when the temperature is above 0°C during the day and below 0°C at night, maple trees will begin to flow sap. Farm workers drill small holes in the tree trunks and insert tubes or buckets to collect the clear maple sap.
Boiling and concentrating: Maple sap contains up to 97% water and must be boiled for a long time to become thick maple syrup. It takes 40 liters of maple sap to make 1 liter of pure maple syrup, which is why maple syrup is so precious!
Filtration and bottling: The boiled maple syrup will undergo multiple filtrations to remove impurities, and finally poured into glass bottles, becoming the familiar golden sweet syrup.
The farm also offers maple syrup tastings, and you can also try traditional maple syrup snow candy sticks (Maple Taffy) - pour the boiling hot maple syrup on the clean snow, quickly cool it down, and roll it up with a small wooden stick. It has a soft and glutinous texture and is full of maple syrup flavor.
After purchasing maple syrup, we took an outdoor maple syrup-making tour. The tour guide took everyone under a maple tree and explained the process of collecting maple syrup and the current automated collection operations on the farm. And actually demonstrate how to drill nails into a maple tree to make maple syrup flow out. The maple syrup flow was very slow, and I waited for a long time before I got a drop.
The farm also sells breakfast sausages + muffins + maple syrup, which are very popular among Canadians. We definitely can’t miss it. Maple syrup is a national treasure of Canada, with a unique caramel and woody aroma, sweet but not greasy. Breakfast sausage has a slightly salty and spicy flavor, which forms a sharp contrast with the sweet maple syrup, making the taste richer. The soft batter of pancakes can absorb maple syrup, making the overall taste more rounded. This combination has both sweet satisfaction and salty depth. We bought a breakfast sausage and a waffle to experience the classic Canadian breakfast with a blend of sweet and savory flavors. The maple syrup provided on the table was available for guests to add and top up, with no limit at all!
The seasonal Maple Syrup Festival is worth experiencing, so make sure you seize the opportunity.
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