And many hours later, here is the essence of all that sap!
The spoon-licking team notes that it is very tasty indeed!
Monday, February 20, 2017
It's that time!
It's that time! The maple sap is running already during this warm February week. 2 taps filled 2 gallon jugs today. We have at least 5 sugar maples in the back yard, some quite big, so we really could get some more taps. Problem is...no outdoor sugarhouse means a very foggy kitchen to make much at all :) I suppose we could rig up some sort of outdoor boiling system...but then again, it's so very easy to buy a little jug...and my dear hubbie prefers artificially flavored corn syrup anyway :P So we just boil a pot every year for the fun of it! Owen loves to drink the cold sap right out of the tree. It tastes like water to me, but he says he can taste the flavor of it and it's way better than water!
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I've read the Indians used to boil their cornmeal in maple sap to make sweetened corn meal mush/breakfast cereal. Owen can experiment! And in "Little House", Laura's grandmother cooks the syrup to "waxing" state so they can have "sugar on snow." My VT friend Susan Davis says you eat dill pickles with sugar on snow to cut the sweet :). Love, Mommo
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