Name: Maple Baked Apples
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 portions
Ingredients: 4 big Cortland or Empire apples; 60 ml (1/4 cup) maple sugar; 60 ml (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, diced (with extra to butter pan); 1 pinch of salt; 125 ml (1/2 cup) maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich flavour)

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The sugar maple tree has existed in North America for more than 4,500 years.

Maple syrup is made from the sap of sugar maple trees.

Maple products are exported to more than 60 countries around the world.

In 2013, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield ate maple syrup in space

Every spring, the sugaring season lasts for about 20 days.

Quebec produces over 72% of all the maple syrup in the world.

Quebec maple syrup comes from 34 billion maple trees.

In 1536, Jacques Cartier and his crew became the first Europeans to taste maple sap.

In summertime, sugars are created through the process of photosynthesis in the leaves of the sugar maple

Maple syrup producers often work day and night to collect the maple sap and turn it into maple syrup.

The sugar maple and red maple are two tree species with the ability to convert starch to sugar.

Maple sap contains 46 molecules vital to the life of the tree.

Each year, maple forests capture an amount of carbon equivalent to what’s produced by 290,000 cars.

North America has 13 maple tree species, including the sugar maple.

It has to freeze at night and thaw during the day for the maple sap to flow

In about 1676, our ancestors, the First Nations people, were the first to boil maple sap, using iron pots.

Maple syrup from Quebec is pure and 100% natural.

In the sugar shack, the maple syrup producer uses an evaporator to heat maple sap to a temperature of 103.5° C.

It takes an average of 40 litres of maple sap to make one litre of maple syrup.

Maple Quiz

Preparation

15 minutes

Cooking

35 minutes

Portions

4 portions

Metric Imperial

Ingredients

Preparation

4 big Cortland or Empire apples
1/4 cup maple sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter, diced (with extra to butter pan)
1 pinch of salt
1/2 cup maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich flavour)

Preheat oven to 180 °C (350 °F).
Cut apples in two (horizontally) and remove core with a melon baller.
In a bowl, mix together maple sugar, butter and salt to form a soft paste.
Arrange 4 cored half-apples in a buttered ovenproof dish. Pour maple paste in their cavities and smother in maple syrup.
Cover with remaining half-apples to recreate apple shapes and bake around 35 minutes, or until apples are cooked through.
Remove from oven and let stand a few minutes before serving with a scoop of ice cream.

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