You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the ...
When it dribbles from the tree, sap is anywhere from 1 to 3 percent sugar. To make maple syrup, sap must be boiled down to a much sweeter 66 percent sugar, a process that took hours. Justin Kaneps ...
By the time he was 10 years old, Wightman was trudging through the woods, collecting hundreds of sap-filled buckets by hand. Most of us, when we think about maple syrup, picture rosy-cheeked New ...
It is expensive because of the low yield from the sap (40 gallons of sap are needed for one gallon of syrup!) but the cheaper imitations labelled ‘maple-flavoured syrup’ made from a mixture of ...
century-old maple trees drip sap referred to as liquid gold. It will take roughly 50 gallons of these drops to make one 1 gallon of 100% pure Grade A maple syrup. Farms in the Hudson Valley ...
To make syrup, sugar-makers must first tap maple trees for sap. Traditionally, sugar-makers used spiles to tap trees. However, many now use vacuum tubing systems that can “easily double” the ...