Tag Archives: Maine

Maple Sugar Season in March

Posted on March 24, 2019 by heritagerecipebox

Warm days and cold nights keep the sap in sugar maple trees flowing. In New England, Native Americans  taught settlers how to slash tree trunks and extract the sap to use as a sweetener. These buckets from a local farm … Continue reading →

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Soup for a Snowy April Day

Posted on April 3, 2016 by heritagerecipebox

Springtime snow? Why, yes, if you live in New England. A storm arrived this weekend to smother the daffodils and forsythia blossoms. Forget about asparagus and pea tendrils. This is still soup weather.

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Grape-Nuts Bread: Add Milk and Bake

Posted on October 21, 2015 by heritagerecipebox

Call Grape-Nuts cereal the original health food. Created by C.W. Post in 1897, this super-crunchy blend of whole wheat and barley flours has fueled World War II soldiers on tropical missions and climbers on Mount Everest.

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Chowder from the Pine Tree State

Posted on October 24, 2014 by heritagerecipebox

Fall in New England – the flaming burst of colors before the landscape mutes – always sends me back into the kitchen for comfort food, and chowder fits that category.

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