Get that corn syrup crap on the right to not touch our maple syrup, it doesn’t deserve to be on the same shelf.
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Canadian preppers just line the bunker with this + St Hubert’s canned gravy.
My wife is from Quebec and we stock up on the St. Hubert gravy in cans and packets every time we visit her parents.
How much? Maple syrup prices are thru the roof here in Michigan. I’ve already had to cut my pastie budget.
Not worth it for that price. It’ll go down to about $6 a can once the season starts.
So what is the preferred way to save the rest for later when you only need a small amount from the can?
In my area you can only get plastic jug or glass bottle for 7x as much money.
So what is the preferred way to save the rest for later
I don’t understand the question. You open the can, use what you need, then drink the rest.
Ah yeah I forgot. It’s been a while since I bought any but now that I think about it you are correct.
Save it in a mason jar or something. The stuff lasts forever.
I hope everybody’s hungry! Just cracked a new can a’syrup and I don’t have any lids eh?
European here. Do you have to chug it in one go, once opened, or does it have a lid I can’t see in the pic?
The Canadian mind cannot fathom a situation where you need less than a can’s worth of syrup.
It doesn’t really need to be resealed. It stays good without a lid for a very long time. So long in fact that I’ve never once encountered maple syrup gone bad. You don’t remove the whole lid though. You poke two holes, one to dispense from and one for air flow.
Is it any good? My dad used to drive over to Canada and get syrup in big metal cans (like they sell paint thinner in). I was only like 6 but that was the good stuff.
One question: Why 540ml?
My understanding is that is the nominal weight of a newborn beaver.
TY, makes perfect sense.
I think is a metrification of a measurement in imperial fluid ounces, but the imperial numbers seem arbitrary, too.
540 ml = 19.005342 Imp oz. = 18.259572 US oz.
710 ml = 24.988505 Imp oz. = 24.007956 US oz.
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It looks like you visited a metro store. Time to segue into a random related Toronto fact:
Many stores in Toronto were under the brand name “Dominion” that were taken over by metro and rebranded around 15 years ago, some of which were A&P before. The rest of this info is from this wikipedia page, and it’s kind of crazy:
It started with one store in Toronto in 1919, co-founded by two Americans including an A&P store manager. It grew to 20 stores within a year but sold 18 of them to rival Loblaws. They tried to take over Loblaws but failed due to the Great Depression. Then the brand got sold off in 1939 to Argus Corp., then by A&P Canada in 1985. Then by Metro in 2005.
Interestingly, the remaining stores called “Dominion” in the Maritimes of Canada are now Loblaws’ chains leasing the name from Metro Inc.
That’s just wrong.
What’s wrong about maple syrup in a can. If you’re in the main syrup making regions in Canada the vast majority of suppliers use cans.
So do you just transfer the rest into a mason jar afterwards? Cans can’t be resealed and usually have to be used all at once.
Yep. That’s exactly what we do. Honestly though, you don’t need to reseal maple syrup cans. I’ve had a can in the fridge for multiple weeks with no issue. I poke two tiny holes in the lid opposite each other and dispense as needed. The mason jar is a relatively new thing but honestly its a great way to store syrup for the long term.
Doesn’t it alter the flavor?
It really doesn’t as far as I can tell.
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