garbage cans, backerboard, salt filled plastic totes, and a large broken speaker? Why you build a maple syrup making station of course. 1 tank of propane, a few borrowed items, 15 gallons of sap from our maple trees later, and we are the owners of 1 1/2 quarts of the best tasting maple syrup you've ever had! Yum, yum. Rather, we were. We are down to 1 cup already. sniff, sniff :(
Can't wait until next year!
Look at all that sap flow!
Flat Reeslyn was visiting for our tapping season.
Tapping the trees
Tasting that scrumptious sap.
No, their hands weren't freshly washed.
Yes, there were lots and lots of germs swimming around in that bucket.
Somehow we managed to survive.
The germs didn't.
Now go sterilize your hands with sanitizer and forget all about this horror story you just read about how a few children shared germs in a big giant bucket o' sap.
I am sure nothing like this has ever happened before.
If you give Sam a few minutes and a garage full of junk
he'll figure something out.
Final straining. Look at all that liquid gold :)
How to make syrup 101:
*First taste the sap :)
*Strain it through a clean kitchen towel.
*Boil it forever (ours took about 30 or so hours).
*Strain it through a nifty cone shaped thing
that you borrow from your friend.
*Bring it inside to finish
*Watch it closely, very closely!
*When it is 7 degrees above boiling point (for that particular day)
strain it through the other cone shaped thing (made of wool)
you borrowed from your friend.
*Put it in jars, flip them over, listen for the pop - voila!
*Of course the next morning there is another pop.
*Enjoy pancakes and fresh maple syrup, Mmmm good!
4 comments:
Oh my, I'm so impressed! It just makes me wonder why I don't live in the woods and make syrup and eat pancakes every day. What am I doing in Africa??
I miss tapping trees, I grew up around that and want fresh stuff all the time, nothing compares! We would drizzle over vanilla icecream and add crushed walnuts, one of my ALL TIME favorite desserts!
Wow Amy et al, that is amazing! You brought back memories for Neil growing up in Canada.
We will be over for pancakes soon.
Yummy!!! I wish we were there to enjoy those pancakes with real maple syrup with you. I would have been the best cheerleader you've ever seen while you all slaved away on the maple syrup. Sounds delicious!!
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