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Offline chigger

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Maple Syrup
« on: February 18, 2012, 12:34:51 am »

   IT'S that time again,Me and a friend boiled of a few gallons of  sap the last two days ..hers a pic of my half..yum yum...It take ten gal of sap to make one of them quarts...That a hundred gal of sap setting there,,,
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Offline Lone500

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2012, 01:12:21 am »
wow when and how did you collect all that sap?
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Offline drwilson

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« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2012, 01:28:20 am »
My nephew cooked some off today. The weather was real nice here today, 60* with a
nice breeze from the south.  I live in southern Indiana.
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Offline Jimbob

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2012, 01:57:11 am »
Dang, I bet you could do pretty good with some of that in the trading post!
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Offline gstoneberg

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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2012, 02:01:57 am »
I really miss doing maple syrup, well everything but carrying the sap from the trees to the truck.  Nothing is better on waffles.    George
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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2012, 04:30:13 am »
Wow,  That represents a lot of work.  Bet that makes taste just a little better!    Ron
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2012, 10:34:53 am »
Niced haul! We get syrup galore up here. Not for another good month or so. Its still mid-winter in the great nord. Ron there is NO comparison to the corn syrup crap we have to buy at stores. The real deal is special and tastes as such. Get yourself a jug and try it on ice cream, waffles, pancakes, biscuits, you name it.
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Offline jeffhalfrack

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2012, 01:10:22 pm »
   Nice!!!!!   DON'T You Worry  George!!!!!  JeffW
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Offline YosemiteBen

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2012, 05:05:44 pm »
wha cha want to trade for some?
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Offline Sparrow

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2012, 05:58:37 pm »
How much sap do you get from a big maple in a season ? Mine are 5 to 6 feet in diameter .  '  Frank
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2012, 06:06:54 pm »
Being a 'flatlander' I do have to say that sorghum molasses is pretty darn good. ;)
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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2012, 06:47:07 pm »
Looks good.  Wood fired?  I like mine done outside on a fire, gives it a little different taste.  We made some a few years ago, anything to get outside in February.  Thought I was gonna do it this year, but didn't, now it's dang near too late.  Sparrow, I've gotten up to two gallons of sap a day from a good tree.  Three taps is the most you are supposed to use on any one tree, 10" tree minimun for one tap, I think 17" for two and 24" for 3 taps.  It sells for about $40 a half gallon around here, Bloomington, Indiana.
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Offline lowell

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2012, 07:05:16 pm »
Neighbor just hung his cans yesterday and I can see them down the road.  He does his over a wood fire outside. 

 Time to go get friendly with the neighbor!!  >:D O:)
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Offline chigger

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Re: Maple Syrup
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2012, 12:31:15 pm »
The ? was asked how much sap does a tree produce? Every tree is different, some a little some a lot...I tapped this one big maple a couple of years ago and put two taps and two five gal buckets( what I use, a lady at a school supplies them) And the tree ran both buckets over two days running ,but that's not happened again.The most I have collected in a day this year has been about two gal some as little as a pint , and the little trees are running better than the big one. I cook mine out side on a fire in stoves I've made ,I have three stainless steel pans ,12 gal,24gal and a 60 gal,crude but they work.I'ts hard for me to imagine how the Indians could ever produce syrup... I have a neighbor that moved next door to me that has ten kids and I've got them interested ,I supply the trees and all supplies and they supply the labor ,a good deal for both I guess, We cooked off eighteen quarts Thur. and Fri. Had  a big mess of waffles and syrup this morning.
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