Friday, March 16, 2012
Slice of Life Day 16
Today we will celebrate the gift of maple sugar. I quickly made a batch of silver dollar pancakes this morning so we have something to put our taste of syrup on. I also brought dill pickles just for fun, since people in Vermont eat them along with their maple treats. I thought about doing the raised doughnut dipped in syrup and then having them eat the dill pickle as the tradition goes, but not sure I want 22 sugared up children on a Friday afternoon! Especially since it is supposed to be warming up again. I think they learned a lot this week, and I especially enjoyed the beautiful writing of Kathryn Lasky in Sugaring Time. I mentioned to them that nonfiction can have beautiful writing too.
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I didn't know this tradition of dill pickles + maple syrup. I'll have to give it a try around our Hoosier table. And it might be the kind of detail I wan to keep and use in a fiction story someday. :)
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