{
  "id": "le-temps-des-sucres",
  "title": "Le temps des sucres",
  "type": "custom",
  "summary": "The Québécois maple-sugaring season and the social ritual of the sugar shack.",
  "body": "In late winter, when days warm above freezing and nights still drop below, maple sap begins to run. Families and communities gather at the cabane à sucre (sugar shack) to boil sap into syrup and share a heavy seasonal meal — eggs, beans, ham, pancakes, all drowned in syrup.\n\nThe signature treat is tire sur la neige: hot syrup poured in ribbons onto clean snow, then rolled onto a wooden stick as it sets into soft taffy. The practice descends from Indigenous knowledge of tapping maples, adopted and ritualized by settlers, and survives today as much as a social season as a food process — a marker that winter is finally breaking.",
  "culture": "Québécois / French-Canadian",
  "region": "Québec, Canada",
  "language": "fr",
  "transmission": "mixed",
  "tags": [
    "tradition",
    "food",
    "season",
    "maple",
    "community",
    "indigenous-origin"
  ],
  "sources": [],
  "confidence": "documented",
  "contributor": "seed",
  "added": "2026-06-12",
  "updated": "2026-06-12",
  "url": "https://crowdh.com/knowledge/le-temps-des-sucres.html"
}