Making "maple" syrup

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Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:10 pm

I'm to old to grow trees... I'm going to tap on trees that are older than I am...

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Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:21 pm

Lol! Starks I'm buying a few Lol!

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Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:34 pm

1/2 gallon of sap in 2 days... Sugar Maple (1 tree)
Tapped 3 big wild cherry, yesterday...check tomorrow
Tap some Black Walnut and Silver Maple (Jan 27)
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Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:44 pm

2 taps on 1 tree
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Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:54 pm

Some day when my sugar maples are big and tall I'll be thanking you for this. Question: How long do I have to wait until they're older than me? :roll: :cry: :lol:
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Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:49 pm

Feb 1st
Boiling the first 5 gallons from 1 Sugar Maple. I tapped 3 Wild Cherry about 5 days ago and no sap...
Tapped 3 Black Walnuts yesterday, but haven't checked them yet.
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Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:29 pm

I looked around the internet and didn't find that cherry tapping was common... some folks were doubtful if it would be good or maybe poisonous from the cyanogenic compounds in the cherry tree, others said they didn't produce enough sap to bother.
Black Walnuts otoh, come recommended! Hope you get some juice.
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Sun Feb 02, 2020 6:36 pm

It was a 4 gallon batch of 1 Sugar Maple tree sap
1 1/4 pints finished... But is AWSUM!
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Mon Feb 03, 2020 8:54 am

dark....tastes the same to me :)

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Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:10 pm

A friend from Quebec a couple years ago, gave me a couple "oil cans" of maple syrup... and showed me to fry eggs in (real) Maple Syrup with a dash of butter...
My fork tasted like heaven!

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Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:48 am

I was going to boil 4 more gallons of sugar maple today, but it's calling rain all day.
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Sat Feb 22, 2020 5:58 pm

Maple Paradox
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Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:16 pm

Left to right
1) water at GD for 1 gallon ($1) made coffee...
2) pure sugar maple sap tapped at 10 gallons ($?)
3) first outdoor wood fire boil ends up with 1 gallon ($?)
4) indoor boil to finish syrup tomorrow, hopefully a recycled Jim Beam liter bottle full.

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