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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Maple Syrup Completion

Maple syrup making is a commitment
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*  Our maple trees gave us about 8 gallons of sap. We own two silver maple trees.  After boiling it down we now are proud owners of 3 pints.  It sure does look yummy. 

* What I would do next year is boil most of the sap outdoors.  The house gets full of steam and then there is the mess on the stove when it boils over.  I would also create a new way of retrieving the sap into 5 gallon containers, so I did not have to watch it so much.

*  In all, this was a fun project and I learned a lot.  We are planning using our maple syrup for one of our meals tomorrow.  ONWARD

Maple Syrup

Today, I hope to finish making maple syrup.  I have included a you tube video, which helped me a lot.  I figure I have tapped about 8 to 10 gallons of sap.  I will fill in details when the job is done.

Maple Syrup Finishing