maeve --

While a similar recipe would probably work with syrup, the Lenape boiled the maple sap down much further, until it was solid sugar (It was the Europeans who got into the habit of stopping at the syrup phase). The Lenape would mold the sugar into about 1" cubes, wrap them in birch bark, and use them as a form of currency (besides storing it in birch bark baskests, in their pantries). That doesn't work so well with syrup -- it would get messy.

And thank you for posting that poem. I knew the line "When the frost is on the punkin," but I don't think I ever learned the whole thing.

Bill D --

Indeed. There's nothing in the rhym that specifically says he put her whole body in...

Morticia --

All the truly sane people do.

Frogprince --

heh.