As school kids, Taylor farm sons tapped trees during sugaring season and boiled the sap over a wood fire in their Meriden Village home driveway to add to their mother, Gretchen’s, salad dressing. Today the Taylor Brothers’ sugarhouse has a 5,000 tap operation.
1 cup ketchup
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup vegetable [...]

The making of marmalade in New England, as with Britain, began with the quince. Unable to grow orange trees, the early Americans planted quince from seeds that they brought with them and made English style quince marmalade. As transportation became more accessible, oranges, lemons, grapefruits, limes, and pomelos could be shipped north from Florida and [...]