Description
- Tonewood - Maple Seasoning - 3 oz. (86g) Tonewood’s maple seasoning can be used to season poultry, meat, eggs, or even popcorn. Use the seasoning's harmony to add a delightfully unexpected combination of sweetness and spice to your favorite recipes. Zesty black pepper and natural sea salts commingle with sweet maple sugar in these versatile seasonings. Pride and Passion Few things are as imbedded in North American history as maple production. Native Americans were harvesting maple sap and converting it to sugar long before Europeans arrived on the continent. Unique to the northeastern United States and part of Canada, Maple trees are the world’s only self-sustaining crop. They do not deplete the soil; they do not require chemicals, pesticides, cutting, or harvesting. As a result, maple production is environmentally-friendly, organic, and sustainable. Maple syrup’s benefits extend beyond its great taste. Maple products contain 20 unique health promoting compounds including disease fighting anti-oxidants, minerals, and phenolic compounds. Loaded with nutrients, including manganese, iron, calcium, zinc, and potassium, maple is being hailed as a superfood, capable of preventing and fighting diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. Maple products are also fat free and contain fewer calories than other sweetening alternatives, including honey, corn syrup, and refined sugars. Since maple syrup and maple sugar can be used as direct substitutes for these other sweetening methods, a simple adjustment can turn your most decadent recipe into a guiltless indulgence. Recent studies acknowledge the terroir, or “taste of place,” of maple syrup. Simply, just as wine varies in taste depending on where the grapes were grown, maple products vary in taste depending on where the maple trees are rooted. To produce superior maple syrup requires the ideal climate, growing conditions, topography, and geography. Their location in Mad River Valley, VT combines rich soil, southern facing slopes, and high elevation with ideal maple climate, allowing us to produce sap of unparalleled quality. Their artisan sugarmakers use refined harvesting and crafting techniques to transform this sap into pure maple syrup with exquisite clarity, color, density, and flavor. Their artisan approach is outlined below: In early spring, warm days and freezing nights mark the brief maple harvesting season. In preparation for the harvesting season, sugarmakers drill small holes and insert taps to allow for sap to run out of the trees. As warm weather thaws the trees’ sap reserves, excess sap runs through the taps and is collected. Sugarmakers carefully boil the sap over a fire, concentrating watery sap to less than 3% of its original volume to produce the thick, rich syrup. Through a refined straining process, sugarmakers remove any impurities from the syrup. Syrup is sealed into their distinctive glass bottles to preserve freshness, taste, and purity as it makes its way from their producers to your home. Preserving the Future Tonewood is committed to preserving family-owned sustainable maple farming. Unfortunately small producers, like those they partner with, are currently threatened by both environmental and economic factors. Because maple production relies on the weather to create harvesting conditions, climate change is a major concern for the industry. Over the past forty years, the harvesting season has decreased in length and shifted to occur early in the year. These changes are the result of warmer winters and earlier thaws. Unless climate change is controlled, the United States maple harvesting industry might disappear entirely within the next half century. Tonewood seeks to protect U.S. maple production by donating to the Proctor Maple Research Center at the University of Vermont. The Center is a leader in maple research and education, with a focus on improving harvesting technology and understanding maple tree physiology and health. Through their suppo
- UPC # 851213005111
- Size/Form 3 oz.
Suggested Use: Can be used to season poultry, meat, eggs, or even popcorn INGREDIENTS Pure Maple Syrup, salt, garlic, black and red pepper and other spices.
