edsanders.com - Maple Sugaring Glossary

The sugaring industry has a vocabulary all its own, as most endevours do. It'll be less confusing if I list them!

sugar arch, the assembly of evaporator pan, firebox, and smokestack used to reduce maple sap to maple syrup.
sugar house, (house in Vermont, shack in New Hampshire) Some places "sap house" the building in which the sugar arch is housed.
sugar bush, an orchard of maple trees, usually culled and cultivated to produce maple sap.
sugaring, the process of producing maple syrup.
sugaring off pan, the last evaporator pan used to boil off water to make maple syrup.
sap yoke, a device worn over the shoulders with a bucket hanging from each side to gather sap from the buckets on the trees. The sap was then poured in a tank mounted on a sled or trailer. The tank was and/or is towed by oxen, horses, tractors, trucks, doodlebugs, snowmobiles, or humans.
doodlebug, a homemade tractor made from old, rusted out cars and/or trucks.
sap run, (or just run), when the sap is flowing from the trees.
sugar content, the amount of sugar per amount of sap.
maple sugar, pure maple sugar made from maple syrup.
sugar on snow, the ultimate delicacy! Maple syrup boiled down to the proper consistency, then dribbled onto packed, heavy, wet snow. Eaten with a fork.