We are passing on a recipe shared by Colonial Tin Works (where we purchase a lot of our iron items) We are anxious to try it- if you do let us know how it worked!

MAPLE SNOW TREATS

Gather fresh snow from outside, take it inside (keep it from melting!) and boil some maple syrup.

It needs to be real maple syrup.

Add 1 tablespoon of butter and stir until melted. Keep stirring for 6-7 minutes so it doesn't boil over. (You'll know it's ready when the syrup mix starts to from hard balls when it drips off the spoon.) Remove from heat. While the syrup mixture is cooling for a few minutes, run outside and fill several plates or roasting pans with snow. Bring in and drizzle spoonfuls

of the syrup mixture over the snow.

The result: taffy-like maple candy, just like they made in

Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House in the Big Woods."