AKA
Cabane à sucre. Traditionally the place where
maple sap is gathered in a giant
boiler to make
maple syrup. The syrup/sap
ratio is about 100:1. That's a LOT of
steam.
Today it means a place where maple producers have a
restaurant that serves traditional
lumberjack breakfasts, has guided tours of maple production and miscellaneous outdoor activities.
The production season is
aboot three weeks long, just around
Easter, when the
daytime temperature is above freezing, and the
nighttime temp. is below -- this is the
phenomenon that makes the maple trees produce
sweet sap.
Stuff you'll see at a sugar shack
Maple trees connected by huge networks of plastic tubing
Ham'n'Eggs drenched in maple syrup
Oreilles de christ: Deep fried pork rinds.
Maple toffee: Thickened maple syrup poured directly on the snow; you pick it up with a popsicle stick
Maple candy, butter, pastries.
Drunken french canadians.