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1) Boil maple until it will hold together when dropped in cold water taking care not to burn it.

2)Pour over vanilla ice cream

3) Let cool slightly and Eat!

It...

I'll have to contact the postmaster as it was shipped out two weeks ago. :)

I wanna know what those danish things are and how to make them.

I don't know what it is, but it looks real good.

OK, one last post for the season, some recipes: :)

Maple coated peanuts!

http://youtu.be/hFam2Wo7NPk

You can use any nuts really, but I used peanuts.

1 lb. nuts to 6-8 oz. of syrup

You're welcome! BTW, the hydro is only 12 bucks and I got my digital thermometer at Walwart for like 13 bucks or something. Oh, and if you buy one you don't need the 27 dollar SS cup they sell with...

I don't use the candy thermometer anyore, it didn't havefine enough graduations for determining syrup. I actually don't use temp anymore either, but use a syrup hydrometer instead. I use a digital...

It could just be a quality issue as well canid. When the weather warms or the trees bud the sap gets cloudy with bacteria. Many folks say to toss this sap, while many others say use it. It makes a...

87!!!! Oh man, it's getting down to 10 here tonight, and now the weatherman says it's supposed to be below freezing for two days straight or more. Extended shows 68 by next Saturday, so now I don't...

Yes it would!

I was gonna pull my taps, but we're in the midst of another cold snap, so I think I'll hold off. I'm up to 7.5 gallons now and hoping for two more. Once the weather warms above...

I don't know what it'd take to get it to you, Winnie, customs?, but I'd gladly send you a bottle from this side of the pond, lol. I've never shipped anything overseas, so I don't know what's...

Well, it might be over!

I gathered 64 gallons of sap in one day last Wednesday and had 31 from the day before. Fearing the warm temps in the 60's and low 70's would make the sap spoil, I started...

I can't remember if I listed my expenses for this project, but will now:

Evaporator complete 170.00
Wood, 2 face cords delivered 130.00
bottles, hydrometers, filters and the like, another...

And again, just because I bought a couple fancy pieces of low cost equipment, it's not needed. A drill or brace and bit to tap, elderberry or sumac spout for a tap, an old milk jug or bucket to...

Well I got my second batch finished and bottled, 13 1/2 pints.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/shroomer69/Wild%20edible%20plants/Maple%20Syrup/BatchNumberTwo.jpg

I was up all night...

The one neighborhood has 2 big maples in front of every house, and another two or three in each back yard. I wanna tap em all. :)

the best part of this whole process was giving the syrup to the folks letting me tap their trees. They were all real surprised I had syrup for them already, smilin' faces.

After I left the one...

Hehehehe! Maybe I can donate a pint or two for the next BIF thang, that is if the sap runs, today I only collected 11 gallons, that's 2 days worth of sap, half the buckets were dry. The cold really...

Not too bad, I've given away half already, lotsa smilin' faces.

I spent all afternoon Saturday and into the evening making syrup. Everything went real good and I ended up with a gallon of the good stuff, 8 pints.
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Ya, it has a grommet, the pole has a plastic insert that fits through it, and on the other side, the top, you put a rubber grommet to hold it in and keep it from rising up I suppose. It's been...

Built a new Sugar shack, :), and gathered my first sap of the season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKstTgzH9Hk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr8Uo8L4w_4
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We still have close to a foot, even after the melting. In February we got over 2 feet of snow, most of that was in a 2 week period, IIRC. But, rains's a comin'.

Yes it will! It's in the car now and i bought 2 3/4" barbed fittings and some hose to run from the shutoffs. Everything is working good now and I can feed the steam pans directly from the big tank...

Thanks, although, my neighbor quickly pointed out that the long extended shutoff will not allow me to close my car door. Duh! I hadn't considered that. The funnel will come off, but the shutoff is...

The maple bug! LOL!

I finished up my storage tanks today, tapped 14 more maples, checked the other 12, stacked 2 face cords of wood, lugged 40 gallons of water back and forth to test the tanks...