RefNo | CLP/10iii/41 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'A method for making sugar from the maple tree in N [New] England' by Paul Dudley |
Date | [1719] |
Description | Paper regarding how to make maple sugar from the juice of the upland maple or maple trees that grow in the highlands. Dudley describes the process of extracting sap from the tree, boiling the sap until it becomes thick like treacle, removing it from the flame and stirring beef suet through the sugar prevent it hardening.
Subject: Agriculture
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the method of making sugar from the Juice of the Maple Tree in New England'.
Communicated by John Chamberlayne. Read to the Royal Society on 29 October 1719. |
Extent | 3p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1720.0008 Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 31 (1721), p 27 |
RelatedRecord | RBO/11/26 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7811 | Dudley; Paul (1675 - 1751) | 1675 - 1751 |
NA6747 | Chamberlayne; John (c 1666 - 1723); translator and literary editor | c 1666 - 1723 |