October 2010

Grade B is here!

Due to popular demand, we are now offering Premium Grade B on our website.  Our Premium Grade B is a late-season product with the strongest flavor of all the grades we offer. It is prized by maple syrup lovers at the table and for cooking. Enjoy!

Fancy Pints are Back!

We’ve just bottled up a whole batch of Fancy pints. Thank you for your enthusiastic interest in this product. We even took a few orders from customers who phoned in and wanted Fancy pints as soon as we had bottled more. Now, everyone can order Fancy pints again on this website. Enjoy!

Florida

Florida wins for the state with the most syrup orders in September. We’ll have to wait and see which state wins in October. Lots of orders coming from California so far.

Fancy Pints

Our Fancy grade was so popular this season that we have run out of pints of Fancy. We expect to have more bottled soon and back on our website for sale.

When I asked one customer what was so special about our Fancy grade, he put it quite simply. He cannot find it anywhere else at this price or this quality. Our quantity discounts have also been popular and we’ve been selling cases of 6 pints and 6 quarts like crazy. We’ll have more Fancy pints...

Maple Syrup Recipe

A lot of you have been asking us for some maple syrup recipes. Here’s one that is really good.

Maple Barbecue Sauce

  • 2 Tbsp strong mustard
  • 2 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 clove fresh garlic, crushed
  • 1/2 tsp cracked black pepper
  • 1/2 tsp dry thyme leaves, crushed
  • 1/3 cup Hidden Springs Maple maple syrup
  • 1/3 cup cooking oil

Whisk ingredients together. Use as a basting sauce for chicken, port chops or spare ribs. Makes about 3/4 cup of sauce, enough for...

Discounts

You can receive a 10% discount by ordering 6 or more pints or 6 or more quarts. Some of our friends are stocking up this way so that they can give the syrup away as gifts during the holiday season.

Hidden Springs Maple syrup is a great gift

Our friends tell us that they love giving our syrup as gifts. That’s why we include a personal gift card in with your order if you choose at checkout.

Free Shipping

We also shop a lot online and know that free shipping is important to our customers. That’s why we offer it if you order at least two of anything. That means, order two pints or two quarts or a quart and a pint and you are automatically eligible to receive free shipping at checkout.

Hidden Springs Maple, a family-run business

We’re a family-run business. All of our syrup comes from our farm in Southern Vermont. Our sugar bush is about 250 acres. We currently have about 5,000 maple trees in production (we’ll get to more details about the farm in a later post). The syrup is produced, packaged on the farm and shipped from the farm direct to you. A number of our family members are involved with some part of the process - including harvesting the maple sap, boiling the sap...