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How I did it: I had to wait until after I got out of school for spring break to come home. It was really too warm to tap, the temperature is supposed to be below freezing at night and in the forties during the day, but I got my brothers and cousin together and I had been planning for so long, I wanted to give it a try. We tapped around ten trees, and because it was such a bad time, we only got less than a cup of sap. The sap to syrup ratio is around 40:1, so if you do the math, you see that we didn't get much syrup. We decided to boil it down anyway, and we got just less than one teaspoon of syrup!
How I did it: Since I grew up doing this on our farm, it’s kind of a freebie I guess. But I HAVE made a point to make syrup on my own land as an adult. I bought a sheet of stainless and had it bent into a pan according to the design of my parents’ pan—a long, narrow, shallow pan with a “lip” on each side (into which 2×4 “handles” are slipped when it comes time to take the pan off the fire). With 125 taps in our sugarbush and two 200 gallon galvanized cattle tanks (never used by cattle, mind you!) for sap storage, we were in business!
Carrying the sap is a lot of work, but with that number of taps it is just do-able. Figure 30-40 gal of sap/gallon of finished syrup. We would boil when we had both tanks plus two 35 gal trash cans (never used by trash, mind you!) full of sap. Minus the head room, it was usually about 450 gallons of sap. If you do the math, you see that’s a lot of syrup! And since we’d usually get two or three or even four batches during a good run, we’d be stocked for years!
It’s a wonderful time of year, during the Sugar Moon. I love carrying sap at night, especially around the full moon. The snow reflects the moonlight so that it’s almost like daylight. It’s quiet and relatively warm. ... Ahhh! I even remember a couple spring evenings being out there walking on snowshoes and having a spring lightning storm come up! Absolutely so cool… Read how I did it… 2 years ago
Had my homemade maple syrup on some pancakes this morning. Damn good. I would not want to do this often, but once a year seems like a simple way to remind myself of the simple pleasures (like sweet syrup) that can be found in nature (or your own backyard). 4 years ago
After 5 hours we have maple syrup. Now it is cooling down. Right at the start of the boiling process (when it is mostly water) I took some of the sap and used it to brew a cup a tea. The slightly sweet water made a nice undertone to the tea. 4 years ago
Over the past few days ended up with just over 3 gallons of sap. The sap is mostly water so to get maple syrup you must boil the sap for many hours to evaporate the water and concentrate the natual sugars. I am told it takes about 6 hours. The volume will go down to about 1/30th so we should end up with about a cup and half of syrup. 4 years ago
Decided this year to give it a go of making some maple syrup from the trees in my yard. A few days ago I tapped the large silver maple in my back yard and have collected just over a gallon of the maple sap (mostly water).
I hope to boil it down this weekend to get the real maple syrup. Probably will only get enough for a couple of pancakes but maybe next year I will tap more trees.
Also should note that the picture above was taken on April 11, 2007. Prince has a song called “Sometimes it Snows in April”...that is a very true statement in Minnesota. Luckily the temperatures are perfect for getting maple sap – below freezing at night and above freezing during the day is preferred for maximum sap production. 4 years ago
when i lived on a farm in canada, we made maple syrup. it takes a reeeaaalllyy long time to boil down to the final product. 5 years ago
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