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Maple Weekend 2025!

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Saturday March 15th 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM and Sunday March 16th 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Maple Weekend is back at Just Maple and we’re excited to offer all our favorites!

  • Active evaporator
  • Live music
  • Maple Concessions (including our famous sap boiled hot dogs!)
  • Samples (grades of syrup, maple cream, maple mustard, maple milk, maple apple butter, etc.)
  • Educational tours
  • Maple themed coloring pages for kids

The Shop will be open and fully stocked! We accept cash, check, and credit cards.

Bring your boots, it will be muddy!

Just Maple is Open!

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Just Maple continues to provide our customers with the finest candy, syrup, and other maple products! Our store is open from 9 AM-5 PM Tuesday through Saturday and 11 AM-5 PM Sunday and Monday. For information or orders, call Barbara at 603-520-2373, or email us at [email protected]!

Making maple with a Purple Moose

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This delightful children’s book is also one of the best about making maple.

The Purple Moose books are written with the help of Mrs. Kristen Steele. Purple Moose entered her life after meeting him in the gift shop of the Water Wheel Breakfast and Gift House in Jefferson, New Hampshire in 2005. He was the perfect NH memento to take back to Ohio to share with her kindergarten class, where the school color was purple! Purple Moose’s airplane trip back to Ohio turned into Purple Moose’s first adventure book! He became the class mascot and loved creating stories with his many classmates. Mrs. Steele taught kindergarten and special education in the public schools systems of Virginia, Ohio, and New Hampshire for over 27 years. After returning to her native NH, she began working on publishing and writing the Purple Moose stories that her former students loved and inspired. Mrs. Steele is a big believer that children learn through play. It is her goal to live with enthusiasm and share her love of learning, the arts and the world with children.

For more about this book and others by Purple Moose, go to www.purplemoosekids.com


Kristen Steele and the Purple Moose will be at Just Maple for a book signing Maple Weekend, March 23-24. Details

New – Personalized Maple Bottles

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We are very excited to now offer real etched glass maple bottles, personalized for you or your company. Just Maple can make these beautiful bottles using your graphics, an image, or even a picture, for a very reasonable price.

These customized bottles make great wedding favors, anniversary party tokens or are fine additions to gift baskets. Your company logo can be added, whether you are a Just Maple reseller, or you want the bottles as a corporate gift or company “thank you”.

Please contact us at 603 520-2373 or [email protected] for more information.

Have Maple, Will Travel – Where To Find Just Maple Products

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Besides our barn store in Tilton, maple syrup, candy and other tasty goodies from Just Maple can be found all over the place! Yup. Good chance there’s a spot near you. Here’s a partial list:

(Note: Some of these places are open seasonally – please see their site for hours)

Hampton Falls NH

Salisbury NH

Gilford NH

Concord & Manchester NH

Meredith NH

Lincoln NH

Lincoln NH

Rumney NH

Manchester NH

Ipswich MA

Laconia NH
 Winnisquam

Tilton NH

Stratham NH

Contoocook NH

And you can find us here:

…and more! Please call us with inquiries 603 520-2373

From Apps to Desserts: Lots of Delicious Uses for Maple in Your Cooking

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Maple Bourbon Bacon Jam (pic – ClosetCooking.com and Buzzfeed)

Now that sap season is past and the weather grows warmer, it’s time to play with maple in the kitchen. There is a universe of recipes that use maple aside from the obvious: pancakes, coffee cake, and in baked beans. I love this article from Buzzfeed by Snack Editor, Rachel Sanders, “57 Magical Ways To Use Maple Syrup“. The article does a nice job of underscoring the wide range of cooking uses for the sweet product of the sugar maple tree.

Several of the 57 caught my eye, from the gloriously simple ways to make your frequent-flyer kitchen vegetables into gourmet treats like Pan-Roasted Maple-Glazed Carrots (#41) to Sweet Potatoes With Bourbon And Maple (#21). I’m a big fan of using maple for barbecue and grilling and am guilty of doctoring store-bought sauce with dark maple. Recipes that take this concept to a much higher level include, Grilled Maple Mustard Chicken Wings (#36) and Beer, Maple and Garlic Pork Shoulder (#38). Both of these will be high on the summer cookout menu.

Just because baked beans are an obvious use for maple doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it – I recently made up a batch of maple barbecue beans that were just killer. #39 Maple Baked Beans is a good, solid recipe.

On the dessert side, simple is often the best way to go and I like the suggestion for a Coffee Maple Sundae (#43) made with coffee ice cream and toasted pecans. It’s easy to see you could pretty much plug in your favorite ice cream or frozen yogurt here. I’d suggest topping with Just Maple’s Maple-Coated Pecans (which are also very nice chopped up and used in a salad). Instead of ice cream, vanilla yogurt topped with maple syrup and those pecans is pretty darn nice.

The real show stopper for me in the article: Maple Bourbon Bacon Jam (#25). Maple. Bacon. There’s no competing with that. The author bills this as “the condiment of Canadiens and kings”. I don’t think I could agree more. Set that next to your cheese platter at a dinner party or use like a chutney with grilled or roasted chicken, duck or pork. Seriously… roofing shingles would probably taste good with this stuff.

What’s your favorite or what do you think should be on the list? Got a favorite recipe of your own? Share on Just Maple’s Facebook page.

 

– Andy Mack Jr

 

[Andy Mack Jr grew up on a family apple farm in Londonderry NH. He is a radio engineer, broadcaster and writer. The native Granite Stater has a passion for New Hampshire’s unique places, outdoors spaces, angling, culture and the arts. On Twitter @MackNH]