From maple candy to simple snow ice cream, here’s how to put the bounty of winter to work. Snow is a wonderfully ephemeral form of precipitation, turning from crystalline wonder into plain water at ...

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With just some freshly fallen snow and ingredients from the pantry, you and your kids can turn a bad winter storm into a sweet snow day Yes, sigh, another winter storm is dumping epic amounts of snow ...

In a famous excerpt from the Little House on The Prairie book series, Laura and Mary were taught by Ma and Pa how to make delicious maple syrup taffy using fresh snow. Though news of snowflakes ...

Cooking oil if using candy molds. If you are using a baking pan, you can use wax paper instead of cooking oil. Half a cup of pure maple syrup (make sure it is not imitation syrup!) If you're enjoying ...

As a writer for the “Homestead” section of the Bangor Daily News, I am almost ashamed to admit that I did not take to the “Little House” series as a kid. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s problematic literary ...