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| Taste testing. Lots of taste testing. |
Made just over 7 gallons today (29 quarts). My dad insists we would have had 8 gallons if I weren't there.
(And he's probably right!)
In a very quick nutshell, this is what goes on to make maple syrup: collect sap, boil sap down in an evaporator,
sample, draw off when it gets close to syrup, finish boiling off in separate pans,
sample, fill jars,
sample, finish filling jars,
sample cooled sap from bottom of pans, clean equipment.
There's a lot more to know about making maple syrup, but at the core, it's just boiling away all that water to get down to the good stuff: syrup that's 66.6% sugar and 33.3% water. Adirondack gold.
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The arch and evaporator: the first stage of the
boiling process. |
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Drawing off the sap, nearing the point where
it's syrup. |
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| The finishing pan: the second stage of boiling off. |
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| Getting close! More boiling. |
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| The finished product. Success! |
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