Making Maple Candy

We have just started out on our unit on pioneering.  The whole family is having a great time during this unit.  

The book that we are using for this unit is called Pioneer Sampler by Barbara Greenwood.  Its a great book for us so far.  The book fallows a pioneer family, the Robertsons, that are living on a little farm in the back woods of North America.  With each chapter you learn a little about the life of this pioneer family and the way they live there lives. After each story chapter there is information about the whatever subject is covered in that chapter and usually an activity that you can do.



 One of the chapters we learned about how they use to collect and make maple syrup.  At the end there was an activity on how to make maple sugar candy.  I had found another maple sugar candy recipe that was a bit easier then the one they gave in the book, that we did instead.

Here is our time of making candy. 

 Wonder Girl add the butter.

Measuring and putting in the salt.

 Adding in some maple syrup.

  Stir all everything together.

 

 Dare-Devil Boy couldn't help to have a try.

 Here we are rolled the candy and left them on the tray to harden.

 I forgot to take a picture of how it came out.  But you can see from the last picture it wasn't so bad.  It was good treat and I think I'm going to make them again myself, but dipped in melted chocolate and let harden to make a truffle kind of candy.