Collision feel of traditional and exotic to Canadian food map

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Known as the Canadian food with maple syrup, ice wine, such as salmon, such as Canada immigration country, its food constitutes a perplexing, let us follow the footsteps of bloggers, looking for the Canadian food map and life attitude.

Sugar shack in the food

All kinds of maple syrup (photograph: clove flower in the world)

Canadian maple leaf, one of the largest in the southeast part of Quebec province and Ontario maple leaf is the most beautiful. Canada Maple all over, every autumn sunset red maple leaves, like flowers in full bloom in the summer, so that Canada was known as the "Maple Leaf country".

In Canada, people have more profound feelings of maple leaf, and it is used as a symbol of the country, from the national flag, emblem, flower, as people living supplies, maple leaf logo meet the eye everywhere, win support among the people. Canadians like maple, not only its ornamental value, but also because it can be used to make syrup, for people to enjoy. In many maple varieties, the most famous is the sugar maple and black maple, said its sap sugar content of up to 7% to 10%, and can be used for continuous production of sugar for more than 50 years. In view of this, "Canadian Maple Syrup Festival" emerge as the times require: State regulations every March when collecting maple syrup, boil maple syrup, as a national traditional folk festival -- the maple syrup festival.

Collection of maple syrup small drum, with almost every tree.

Refining sugar house (Sugar House, cabane �� Sucre) is built on a maple forest one or several cabins or shack maple syrup, local farmers gathered here, and then boil maple syrup.

In Quebec, most refined sugar house is a family run. When spring comes, maple syrup begins to flow in or out from the tree. Easter in Quebec is the old festivals, a symbol of rebirth and hope. Easter Day is the first Sunday after vernal equinox, also just is a good time for maple syrup production. Traditionally, the people of Quebec will family clustered celebrated in the refining sugar house, usually enjoy all kinds of food for maple syrup production, some people even use maple syrup production of sausage, or maple syrup boiled egg to eat. Opened to the public in towns near the most refined sugar house in a month, a reception hall and outdoor activities. These outdoor activities including skiing, walking tour, and eat toffee.

Have a look the waiter. They are all local students, when the maple syrup festival to work. Salary how do not know, but really a lot of tips.

The reception hall provides a variety of dishes rich and colorful, free sugar. These foods from cooked ham, bacon, sausage, fried egg, pig meat and pancake breakfast nature of many other kinds of snacks. Some maple house there are some characteristics of food, such as homemade pickled cabbage, bread, then a dessert, such as maple pie and ice toffee.

The most interesting is, the maple room are decorated with a long table, the people who come here just sit down and just like buffet as enjoy food, service personnel will continue to add any food tourists like to eat, unless you do not want to eat. This is a traditional life in Quebec, other provinces have no such delicious food.

Maple syrup is a sweetener with maple syrup boiled. In the cold winter, before some maples in the root store large amounts of sugar, maple syrup to spring began to flow, people just install some faucet as acquisition device, can collect maple syrup. Not all Maple produces maple syrup, like the city of Montreal there are a lot of maple, but do not produce maple syrup. The Canadian province of Quebec basically is up to the production of maple syrup places in the world, as if some parts of the United States northeast also produced maple syrup.

Sugar refining room fireplace

In the city, people usually use waffles, pancakes, oatmeal, crumpets and French cake. In Quebec, the use of maple syrup is very wide, can be used for baking bread, sweets, desserts, processing raw sugar, even wine with maple syrup as a sweetener. Sugar maple syrup is most in sucrose. Maple culture or western colonists from the North American Indians to learn there, and later gradually carry forward.

According to Indian generations down the oral historical data and archaeological finds, before the Europeans have not reached North America, living in the northeast of North American Indians would already know how to boil maple syrup and making maple syrup. Initially, Native American Algonquian the maple sap as the energy and nutrition food. Spring snow begins to melt when Al Dagon, Jin took the stone tools, cut into V incision in the maple trees, a concave groove insert reed or made of birch bark, the maple syrup into the container. The Indian vessel is usually made from birch bark. Although rich in sugar maple syrup, but the taste is not very good, need to bake with stone processed into syrup concentration. Some Indians simply put in maple syrup temperature environment outdoor low at night, then remove the juice into ice above concentrated syrup. Cooking pot with soil indigenous production, in the frame of the branches above the fire boil maple syrup.

Early Europeans came to the northeastern North America, the Indians taught the colonists which is rich in sugar maple, maple syrup when most, how to put juice collecting apparatus from these trees, how through boiling evaporation in brown sugar water, how to put the steamed after the juice is concentrated into sugar, how to change the taste, how to melt into the caramel. European settlers how to make maple syrup, this a series of activities will become a part of colonial life indispensable.

By the middle of the nineteenth Century, beginning as we know it today "sugar shack" or "Maple house" (boiling maple syrup outdoor shack or place). After the settlers improved process for collecting the juice, start mass collection of maple syrup products, container shipping juice into barrel, carriage or pulling carts to maple house refining. Maple syrup is known as the "village of sugar" in Quebec, because the sugar is only popular sugar colonies in North America, not other types of sugar products basically, or very difficult to find, either very expensive. Later, maple syrup production process gradually process, but the basic methods of production does not change. Even today, the maple room, people also need to collect the juice, and then boiling processing. Maple syrup process seen is in order, no chemical additives and anti-corrosion agent.

Source:Tracy Sina blog