making maple syrup revisited...

sadiejane

sadiejane

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brought this up last fall-well, ifn ya live in where silver maples grow its time to get rolling
http://thefec.org/node/309
another link
http://ohioline.osu.edu/for-fact/0036.html
one more
http://pittsburgh.about.com/cs/pennsylvania/a/maple_syrup_3.htm

and dont forget to try those maple "helicopters" cept you're supposed to get em off the tree not the ground. if you recall or read that thread, my laotian neighbors picked em by the bagful and boiled em like peanuts. and they sorta taste the same. salt em if ya like.
yeah i know with the snow blowing it seems a long ways off, but really fellas, spring is right around the bend.
 
Yup. I used to make maple syrup, home pressed apple cider, and gather big white puff ball mushrooms in southern Ontario as a youngster. Even the sap has a slight sweetish tinge before it's even boiled and it takes A LOT of sap to boil down to the good stuff. But good Lord when you walk by and catch the smell of the boiling sap\syrup ! :thumbup::thumbup:
 
Hi sadiejane -

Yup - they should be flowing soon -

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best regards -


mqqn
 
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Good golly I can't wait to try this. Thanks Sadie
 
A friend of mine decided to try boiling sap on his kitchen range, the result being so much steam that the wall paper started peeling off the walls. This is a task best done outdoors.
 
I had a pal who tried this and it came out excellent.

I want to try it sometime when I retire and have enough time. I have 2 or 3 huge maples by my house(Sugar Maples)

Silver, and Red Maples and even Box Elder have sugar in the sap but the concentration is lower than Sugar Maples.
 
I have a HUGE silver maple in my backyard that is gonna get tapped. Im also gonna make up some seeds from the helicopters to try out.....
 
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