Canadian Gift Baskets with Maple Flavours

Here’s a secret: Canadians don’t get to enjoy distinctively Canadian treats as often as you think. For most people in Canada, a coffee and donut is as close as they get to official “Canadian food.” Maple syrup and maple treats are some the best known distinctive, Canadian treats.

Maple syrup predates European settlement. Natives gathered the sap in buckets made from the bark of birch trees and boiled it in a cauldron of cooked earth covered with tree branches. They taught Europeans the procedure. The colonists added their own innovations over time, leading to the current, industrialized process. For many years after that, maple syrup was the only source of sugar available in rural regions.

Even though maple syrup and sugar are made using high tech equipment now, the process is the same: concentrate the sap through boiling. It takes about 40 liters of raw sap to make just one liter of maple syrup. Syrup refining is much more energy efficient now, as modern producers recycle heat and filters remove some of the water before heating.

Canada produces 80% of the world’s maple syrup, with most of that coming from the province of Quebec. Nevertheless, it’s still an expensive treat, even in Canada, so as we said, Canadians don’t enjoy this “native dish” all the time.

That’s one of the reasons we offer these maple-flavoured gift hampers: the O Canada, the Canadian Maple, the Canadian Celebration and the Truly Canadian. Each one includes an assortment of maple treats – syrup, cookies, fudge and more. Consider buying one for Canadian friends or relative to give them a taste of something their country produces, but they rarely indulge in.

		Canada Gifts and Hampers Articles Here’s a secret: Canadians don’t get to enjoy distinctively Canadian treats as often as you think. For most people in Canada, a coffee and donut is as close as they get to official “Canadian food.” Maple syrup and maple treats are some the best known distinctive, Canadian treats. Maple syrup predates European settlement. Natives gathered the sap in buckets made from the bark of birch trees and boiled it in a cauldron of cooked earth covered with tree branches. They taught Europeans the procedure. The colonists added their own innovations over time, leading to the current, industrialized process. For many years after that, maple syrup was the only source of sugar available in rural regions. Even though maple syrup and sugar are made using high tech equipment now, the process is the same: concentrate the sap through boiling. It takes about 40 liters of raw sap to make just one liter of maple syrup. Syrup refining is much more energy efficient now, as modern producers recycle heat and filters remove some of the water before heating. Canada produces 80% of the world’s maple syrup, with most of that coming from the province of Quebec. Nevertheless, it’s still an expensive treat, even in Canada, so as we said, Canadians don’t enjoy this “native dish” all the time. That’s one of the reasons we offer these maple-flavoured gift hampers: the O Canada, the Canadian Maple, the Canadian Celebration and the Truly Canadian. Each one includes an assortment of maple treats – syrup, cookies, fudge and more. Consider buying one for Canadian friends or relative to give them a taste of something their country produces, but they rarely indulge in.