Maple Syrup Time
Mar 12, 2015 16:55:03 #
I have been helping my friends in their first time endeavor at making maple syrup. We are in the collection process here in Michigan and will cooking it down all weekend and beyond, we hope. Some of our trees require a long slog by foot to get to them everyday. Good exercise but exhausting for us ladies over 60.
Mar 13, 2015 09:03:46 #
Mar 13, 2015 09:07:23 #
Bren wrote:
I have been helping my friends in their first time endeavor at making maple syrup. We are in the collection process here in Michigan and will cooking it down all weekend and beyond, we hope. Some of our trees require a long slog by foot to get to them everyday. Good exercise but exhausting for us ladies over 60.
Yummy! I see lots of trees tapped around here.
Mar 13, 2015 11:03:08 #
Interesting how things have changed. We had some Sugar Maples in the woods behind our house in MA and I tapped them a couple of times just for the heck of it and so the kids could see how the syrup was made--up close and personal. I've never seen the closed plastic bags before; we used small buckets, but the bags would surely keep the sap cleaner. Then we boiled the syrup on an old gas grill and one of the wife's turkey roasting pan. It's a lot of work for a small amount of syrup; I think the ratio is about 40:1 sap to syrup. Fun to do though.
Mar 13, 2015 11:09:25 #
Bren wrote:
I have been helping my friends in their first time endeavor at making maple syrup. We are in the collection process here in Michigan and will cooking it down all weekend and beyond, we hope. Some of our trees require a long slog by foot to get to them everyday. Good exercise but exhausting for us ladies over 60.
I love real maple syrup, they do sugaring in one of our Metroparks in March.
Mar 13, 2015 11:27:49 #
Yes, the bags are working well but they lack the charm of old buckets. it is a lot of work but it's a fun group activity and more about the time together than about the product. If we manage to each get a quart we will be lucky.
Mar 13, 2015 11:30:08 #
Funny, the first thing I thought of when I saw this title was Michigan.... and I was right! LOL! I think the collecting is going on in my area, too (Gaylord).
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