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| My husband drilling a hole for the spile. If you look closely you can see the clear sap rushing out of the spile as soon as we put it into the hole that was drilled. |
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| It took one week to get the bag as full as you see it in the picture. It would run ok for a few hours in the day (mostly dripping) but it was just too cold of an early spring to really get going. On the right I'm boiling it down. Next year I'll do it outside. |
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| This is my disaster. I'm starting to think disasters are a common theme of my blog. LOL! Of my life. LOL! With every new adventure I start off with a disaster. I thought today was going to be perfect, I should have known it was too good to be true. Second batch of syrup smelled good but turned out yuck and I wasn't sure how to keep going with it to turn it into maple sugar. For the record, I've learned to love disasters... it helps me learn quickly what not to do next time 😉 |
That's so wonderful! I think it's really cool that you made your own syrup. I remember watching a film in elementary school of them tapping maple trees and pouring some of the final product onto snow to eat and thinking how marvellous that must be.
I had a chunk of maple sugar once and it was great, so I'm sure you're going to perfect that recipe and make something wonderful.
I love how you're turning a potentially bad situation into something good, it's very inspirational.
Thanks for the idea! I never thought about pouring it on snow and eating it that way. Aiyana would like that. Next year when we tap again and there is snow on the ground I am going to do that.
Up north the people make sugar maple candy. I wish I knew how to do that. I've read you boil it down until it becomes pure sugar but I don't how to do that without burning it :( I'd like to learn though.
You'll probably eventually find something on the internet on how to make sugar maple candy, just have to spend a few more hours on the internet a day. ;)
Ooooooh! This is something I have always wanted to try! One day! It must be fun to tap and make your own maple syrup!
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A good number of my friends make maple syrup (I guess it means I have very interesting friends...like you!). We've not tried it yet because we have maybe 2 sugar maples on the property, not enough to make it worthwhile. I know you can tap other trees too but they don't generally produce as much. Also, hubby doesn't like the idea that maple syrup has a higher glycemic index (which was why we were using agave syrup for a while).
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