Meyersdale is the home of not only my awesome family, but also, the Pennsylvania Maple Festival. I was lucky enough to attend this festival throughout my entire childhood and drink the sweet waters that we captured from the maple trees every spring. I highly suggest attending this annual early Spring festival, which features car shows, a parade, and SPOTZA!
However, if you feel 3,000 miles is too far to travel from LA to taste the gold of my childhood, then I guess you'll just have to follow my direction and host your own parade.
1 jar of pure maple syrup1 bowl of crushed ice
1 pkg of Lg condiment cups
1 pkg of wooden ice cream sticks
Boil down the maple syrup to the soft ball stage usually 238 degrees F. Dish out 3 tablespoons of crushed ice into each condiment cup. Pour 1 generous tablespoon of boiled down maple syrup over each cup of ice. Insert 1 wooden ice cream stick into each cup and serve! Use the ice cream stick to eat your spotza. Spotza is Pennsylvania Dutch for 'spot on the snow.'
just wanted to let you know that I extremely apprciate you posting this recipe, I also have roots in Meyersdale and I'm using spotza and those amazing little maple candies shaped like leaves as the subjects for my chemistry project, and now that there is another source besides the official Meyersdale website, my class might actually believe I didn't just make it up! Party on fellow Meyersdalian
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