Ye Luo was very glad that the maple variety he bought at the beginning had sugar maple, which was originally used to be Uncle Jing, but he didn't expect to be able to boil maple sugar, which was an unexpected joy.

Although he couldn't eat maple candy for a short time, Ye Luo didn't take it to heart, but said curiously: "Daxter, you have eaten maple sugar, tell me how it tastes?"

Dast was just about to speak, just when he saw Scarlett coming out of the house walking this way, and Daxter, who was amazed, sighed: "Boss, I have to say, the proprietress is so beautiful." ”

"Huh?" Ye Luo didn't understand what Dust meant. Before he could say anything, he heard Scarlett's voice behind him: "There are guests?"

Ye Luo turned his head and saw that it was Scarlett, and asked with a smile, "Why are you alone?"

Scarlett sat down next to Ye Luo, and after glancing at Daxter, she withdrew her gaze, and said with a depressed face: "Alice is in bed, no matter how I tell her to get up, I will let her sleep a little longer, and she will naturally come down when she wakes up." ”

Hearing this, Ye Luo nodded and didn't say anything, pointed to Daxter, and became an introducer: "Daxter, from today onwards, he will be the first employee on our island." ”

Then Ye Luo pointed to Scarlett beside him again, and said to Daxter: "Scarlett, I am a woman." ”

Hearing Ye Luo introduce herself with the words 'my woman', Scarlett's heart was sweet, and she nodded at Dast with a slightly red face: "Hello, I'm Scarlett." ”

Dast scratched his head: "Hello boss lady, my name is Daxter." ”

Wait for the two to introduce each other.

Ye Luo then spoke: "Daxter, you haven't told me yet, what does maple sugar taste like?"

Dast recalled in his mind, a little embarrassed: "Boss, I haven't eaten it for a long time, where can I remember it so clearly." ”

"Don't you have a little impression?" Ye Luo was unwilling, he was really curious about the taste of maple sugar, and he wanted to inquire about it from Dust's mouth, but it turned out to be too disappointing for him.

Scarlett said in confusion, "What are you talking about?"

"Maple sugar. Ye Luo pointed at Dast with disgust sullenly and said: "This guy hooked my curiosity, and he said the truth, but he couldn't even tell the taste, and I doubted that what he told me before was true." ”

Hearing Ye Luo's words, Dust muttered, "I can't find a sugar maple in Newfoundland that is more than 50 years old, I haven't left Newfoundland for several years, where can I go to eat maple candy? Who can remember what it tastes like? If it's wine, I can call it by name after a sip." ”

“......”

Ye Luo couldn't bear to look at it directly.

At first, I began to wonder if my decision to let Daxter come to work on the island was right or wrong.

Scarlett, who was quietly listening to the conversation between Ye Luo and Daxter, finally understood what they were talking about, and suddenly cried and laughed: "So you are talking about maple sugar made from sugar maple resin? ”

Ye Luo asked with a surprised face, "Could it be that you know?"

"Well, know some, come, I'll tell you the answer. Scarlett lifted her chin proudly and explained, "The most famous maple sugar must be in Canada." You know, Canada is close to the Arctic, so it has short summers and long winters, and in the summer, maple trees use photosynthesis to produce starch, which is converted into sugars before winter. ”

"In the cold winter, if the body fluids of plants freeze, the cell membranes will break and the plants will naturally die. The sap of maple trees is rich in sugar, so it is not easy to freeze below freezing, so that they can survive in cold regions at high latitudes. ”

"But when spring and summer come, the temperature rises, and the maple trees start to use water to grow, so that the sugar content in the sap will be higher and higher, and once the concentration is higher than the concentration of cell sap, the loss of cell water is also not conducive to their survival. ”

"So, at this time, it's best to pick maple sugar and let the maple leaves restore starch under photosynthesis, and in fact even if we don't collect maple sugar, the maple tree will secrete these things. ”

Hearing Scarlett say this, Ye Luo immediately understood.

Seeing Dast nodding proudly on the side, Ye Luo suddenly said angrily: "Okay, don't nod, with your cultural level, I guess you can't understand what Scarlett says, what are you proud of?"

"Boss, you say I'm uneducated, I admit it. ”

Daxter's face was stunned, and he said unconvinced: "However, when it comes to collecting sugar maple resin and boiling maple sugar, I, an uneducated person, at least know more than you." ”

“......”

Ye Luo's face suddenly turned dark.

One second he said that Dast was uneducated, and the next second he was slapped in the face.

What's even worse is that he can't even say a word to refute it, this feeling is too aggrieved for him.

At this time, he couldn't wait to fight with the 'real gun' of Daxter in front of him, but after thinking of the huge gap between the two figures, Ye Luo decisively suppressed the idea of 'looking for death', and said angrily: "Hurry up and get out of here, what should I do, don't be an eyesore here." ”

"Haha. Daxter laughed for a while, holding back a smile: "No problem, boss, I'll go." ”

After Daxter left, Ye Luo's face looked a little better, and he was curious about the taste, he hurriedly turned his head, intending to ask Scarlett, and when he saw Scarlett's actions, his face darkened again.

I saw that Scarlett was covering her mouth with both hands at this moment, not letting herself laugh out loud, and it could be seen from the constantly shaking shoulders that if it weren't for Dust, she would have laughed a long time ago.

Sure enough.

"Poof......

When Scarlett saw Dusty leave, tears of laughter came out.

And Ye Luo's face is getting darker and darker, and almost all of them can be described by the words 'pitch black as ink'.

After half ringing.

Seeing Scarlett who slowly stopped laughing, Ye Luo said expressionlessly: "Are you done laughing? If not, you can continue to laugh." ”

"If you don't laugh, if you laugh again, your stomach will cramp. ”

Scarlett was frantically tempting on the verge of death, and she didn't know if it was intentional, or if she really didn't understand the deep meaning of the words.

"Hiss......"

Ye Luo forcibly resisted the urge to clean her up, took a deep breath to calm himself down, and asked, "Since maple trees can be boiled to make maple sugar, why are some areas with mild climates reluctant to plant them?"

"Who told you that no one planted maple trees anymore?"

Scarlett rolled her eyes and said, "If the maple tree wants to collect resin, it must be at least 50 years old. With the exception of Canada, where maple trees are a national treasure, there are very few maple trees that can reach 50 years old, and if the resin is collected if the tree is not up to the standard, the maple tree will quickly wither due to the loss of resin. ”

That's why maple syrup is almost only available in Canada, if not as ubiquitous as it gets. In the rest of the world, the maple trees are either not old enough or have different varieties. ”

Speaking of this, Scarlett shrugged her shoulders: "You must know that not all maple trees can collect resin to make maple sugar, there are three types of maple trees that are usually used to make maple sugar, sugar maple, red maple and black maple, and other maple trees cannot make maple sugar, which you can search for with your mobile phone." ”

Hearing this, Ye Luo took out his mobile phone without hesitation and searched for it, and soon saw the information he wanted.

Sugar maple, also known as sugar maple, is a tall deciduous tree.

It is up to 40 meters high, with a diameter of 40-100cm, and the age of the tree can reach 500 years. The trunk of the tree contains a lot of starch, which becomes sucrose in winter. When the weather is warm, the cane sugar turns into sweet sap.

If you drill a hole in a tree, the sap will flow out. The sugar made from the sap of the tree is called maple or maple.

Maple syrup is rich in minerals and organic acids, and its calories are lower than sucrose, fructose, corn sugar, etc., but its calcium, magnesium and organic acids are much higher than other sugars, which can supplement the weak constitution with unbalanced nutrition.

The sweetness of maple syrup is not as high as that of honey, with a sugar content of about 66% (honey has a sugar content of about 79%-81% and granulated sugar is as high as 99.4%).

There are three types of maple trees that are commonly used to make maple sugar, sugar maple, red maple and black maple, and the sap of these three maples contains up to two-fifths of the sugar, but black maple is considered by some botanists to be a subspecies of sugar maple.

Because maple budding changes the taste of maple sugar, and red maple sprouts the earliest of the three maple trees, its production period is shorter than the other two.

A few other species of maple are also used to make maple sugar, such as Manitoba maple, silver maple, and large-leaved maple. Birch, maple and palm trees are also used to make syrup, but this syrup is not usually called maple syrup.

After reading it briefly, Ye Luo said with emotion: "I didn't expect that there are so many varieties of maple trees that can make maple sugar." ”

"Isn't that nonsense?"

Scarlett said angrily: "Didn't you hear the word 'usually' just now? Canada is a country where maple trees are a national treasure, how can there be only three varieties of maple trees that make maple sugar?"

"Maple syrup is one of Canada's most iconic specialty products. Not all maple sugar comes from Canada, and there are other places, but it is far from being comparable to Canada, which has at least tens of thousands of large and small sugar factories distributed throughout the country, with an annual output of 32,000 tons of maple sugar, accounting for more than 75% of the world's total output. ”

Ye Luo listened to Scarlett's words while looking at the information about the maple sugar level on his phone, which made him suddenly interested.

No1(AA)。 Color: Golden yellow. Taste: Light and fragrant.

The production season is in early March every year, and it is the first to concentrate the sap of the harvested trees to make maple syrup.

Because of its light taste, it is very suitable for children, the elderly, and patients during and after illness, especially those with heart disease and diabetes.

No1(A)。 Color: Golden Brown. Taste: Fragrant.

The production season is around mid-March, when maple syrup is harvested.

No2 (amber). Color: Light brown. Taste: Fragrant.

The production season is around the beginning of April, when the harvest season is towards the end of the maple syrup.

No3 (medium amber grade). Color: Brown. Taste: Extra-fragrant.

The production season is maple syrup, which is made at the end of April during the last harvest season of the year.

Unlike the previous three, this is maple syrup for cooking.

It is characterized by its caramel-like taste, mainly because of its strong smell, so it is widely used in cooking, baking, and some special food condiments. It is even used as a spice in some countries to make the popular maple sugar flavor of cigarettes.