During this year’s maple season, which can run from February to April, they made 4,000 gallons of maple syrup. It has been their best season yet. But even though American maple producers sell to ...

It is expensive because of the low yield from the sap (40 gallons of sap are needed for one gallon of syrup!) but the cheaper imitations labelled ‘maple-flavoured syrup’ made from a mixture of ...