Unless you live in some horrible utopia without seasons, fall has descended like a warm – cold – blanket, wrapping you with wet leaves of many colors, harbingering hot cocoa, carved pumpkins, and whatever autumnal cliché you want right here.
But most importantly, when there’s a nip in the air, we all know that a boy’s thoughts turn to tree sap. Even better: maple sugar candy.
The Brown Family Farm of Brattleboro, Vermont, makes all manner of maple syrupy things, but we’re trying the Pure Maple Candy – in the shape of a leaf.
Have you ever had maple candy? I mean, candy with only one ingredient: 100% pure maple syrup? Well, what are you waiting for? This stuff’s delicious.
Wait, you haven’t? You want to know what it tastes like?