Native Americans first taught white settlers how to extract the sap of maple trees in the spring and boil it down to maple sugar. The practice became a standard ritual of running a farm in northern New England, with most of the extracted sap being processed into maple syrup. Today, New Hampshire is one of the largest producers of maple syrup in the world, and the production of maple syrup has become a rite of spring, practiced by few but important to many.
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