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It's Sap Season!
Brookwood
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I really like seeing all the maple groves around here in Amish country with their buckets, bags, and tubes attached to the trees! Sure sign of Spring! Always a lifting for my spirits getting through another LONG cold Winter!
Think I'll make me some pancakes for breakfast in the morning!
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Had pancakes yesterday and waffles today...
I've owned several waffle makers over the years and never found one where 1\2 a waffle ended up on top and the other half on the bottom when I opened it up!!! Grrrrr!
Tried all kinds of grease on them too! I do really like a good waffle though and will sometimes just order them for breakfast when eating out. No jokes please about let go of my Eggo!
LOL sounds like you open them too soon...
I work with a fellow engineer that also shares the family farm/syrup business with his father.
They started tapping the second week of February this year and are on pace for a record season, which will end very soon with the upswing in temps. I buy at least two gallons of syrup each year from them.
Tried all kinds of grease on them too!
The best oil available for big irons. I figure it also works on waffle irons
"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." 🍺 🇺🇲 🍔
you use that and you will have Ricci knocking on your door withing minutes............
Lotta Sap
The 70 acres we own in PA, use to be a maple syrup farm. I find old metal buckets around the woods, all the time. I also found an old cow bell!!! We have an old tin roof we found, that is the remnants of a maple shack , where they made the syrup. We call the road going back there, the maple shack road. My neighbor up there always comes over, and taps the trees for syrup. She then gives us a couple bottles a year, for letting her get the syrup out of our trees. Seems fair to me. Her syrup is the best!!!!!!!!!!! Next time I go up, I will take a picture of the old structure and buckets laying around. Oakie
Be careful around that old tin roof. Snakes like to live under them. I think you have Timber Rattler's in PA.
Takin' orders?
Does it need to be a certain species of maple or will any type suffice?
I think it must be sugar maples.
Yup! Sugar Maple are used. I've also heard of syrup made from other tree types like Birch, but have never tried it.
you can use water maple but it is not as sweet thus takes a lot more....
It is amazing how many gallons of sap needed to yield just one gallon of syrup.
I tapped an oak one morning when I had a hangover, didnt work LOL.
You think oak is bad, you should try some pine sap sometime! 😁 No processing needed with that stuff. Comes right from the tree already in syrup form!
Takes 100 gallons sap to make 1 gallon syrup, or there abouts,
I made 10 gallon of syrup 40 t0 45 gal. of sap
for 1 gal of syrup .
Don't know how they make different grades, maybe cook it longer?
opps wrong saps sorry
Close to 40 gal sap to gal. of syrup. or something is wrong with your trees! LOL