词汇 | maple syrup |
词源 | maple syrup; maple sugar. “There can’t be a remedy better for fortifying the stomach” than maple sugar, a pioneer wrote in 1705. Maple sugar, boiled from maple syrup and the only sugar the first settlers had, has a long history that dates from the time American pioneers learned how to make it from the Indians. The same, of course, applies to maple syrup, another maple-tree product Americans are still familiar with, but there were also maple-derived products like maple water, maple vin- egar, maple molasses, maple wax, maple beer, and even maple wine. |
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