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Dec 23, 2013 8:18:29 GMT -5
Post by w8n4dave on Dec 23, 2013 8:18:29 GMT -5
Anyone make their own Syrup? There is a guy I met , I let him put some of his goods in the craft shop. He makes Jams Jellies and his own Syrup! OMG that syrup is to DIE for!! I am going to learn how to make it! I am !! We have some Maple trees here and he told me how to do it. So Come Feb. I am going to make me some syrup!! Anyone here make your own? Or know how to ?
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Dec 23, 2013 14:35:07 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 14:35:07 GMT -5
Wendy Marple sap is less than 4% sugar, so it takes a heap of boiling to make sap. A sugar house looks like a steam engine having babies... If you run a pellet or wood heater and you can put a pot on the stove, it works. If your cooking sap on the kitchen stove its too spendy.
Loved my NH & VT syrup...
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Dec 23, 2013 21:56:25 GMT -5
Post by marielouise on Dec 23, 2013 21:56:25 GMT -5
Nope never have! Don't think the right type of trees grow here. Grandparents made their own sorgum syrup back in the day , think their mill or press or whatever it was called, grinding stones wore out and they couldn't find the replacement stones. That was way before my time.
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Dec 23, 2013 22:38:42 GMT -5
Post by gulfcoastguy on Dec 23, 2013 22:38:42 GMT -5
My grand parents used to make their own sugar cane syrup. That was their main sweetener for cookies, pies, cakes ect. They had a cane press outside and boiled the juice over a wood fire.
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Dec 23, 2013 23:28:54 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 23:28:54 GMT -5
I saw a sorgum press when I was just a little critter. I expect hey had to have a significant boil too.
Its showier late in Febuary when its below zero out in yankee land. Open up the roof vents and its steam everywhere.
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Dec 24, 2013 20:45:52 GMT -5
Post by w8n4dave on Dec 24, 2013 20:45:52 GMT -5
Yup Coppice I have an outdoor cooker I forgot the ratio but yes it has to be watched very closley and stirred it takes a while! But OMG this stuff is wonderful! The guy said "Well it's not as good as Honey". which he also has honey bees. I said "OMG i'd eat this stuff before I'd eat honey!" I cannot wait till Feb. We sold out all his Syrup Yummy!!
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Dec 25, 2013 21:05:29 GMT -5
Post by marielouise on Dec 25, 2013 21:05:29 GMT -5
My granparents did sugar cane and sorgum . Did theirs and all their neighbors, everyone gathered at a certain time and brought their cane or sorgum and hooked the mules to the go round that operated the grinding stones then they all helped with the cooking process. I remember my grandparents , parents and their siblings all talking about the fun they had. Back then all the neighbors would gather together and work together to get certain chores done while the kids got to stay up later than normal and run around the woods playing til called to do whatever they were needed to do, depending on their ages . The syrup was cooked on an outdoor fire , then boiled over and ran down a wooden trough back and forth , part of the old trough was still intact when I was preteen--- my brothers and I saw it down were the old mill had been and asked Gramdma and Grampa about it , they tried to explain how it all was done but most of it went completely over my head---hahahha--- syrup in my life came off a store shelf already cooked and bottled. They still had bees when I was little and used lots of honey. their bee hives were made from tree stumps, we didn't mess about them to much Grampa was very protective of his bees didn't like them to be disturbed . In the early part of summer when we were visiting was not the time he raided the hives. That was done later in the season.
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Dec 29, 2013 9:37:25 GMT -5
Post by w8n4dave on Dec 29, 2013 9:37:25 GMT -5
I don't think I'd want to mess with bees , but I will mess with my helicopter trees
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Dec 30, 2013 15:37:48 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2013 15:37:48 GMT -5
Yup Coppice I have an outdoor cooker I forgot the ratio but yes it has to be watched very closley and stirred it takes a while! But OMG this stuff is wonderful! The guy said "Well it's not as good as Honey". which he also has honey bees. I said "OMG i'd eat this stuff before I'd eat honey!" I cannot wait till Feb. We sold out all his Syrup Yummy!! Keep real close care of your teeth. (brush a lot) Maple syrup is fairly acidic. (brush a lot) If you don't brush enough they will only be stumps next year. The old cats who lived through the depression on homespun sugar, mostly had a mouth full of gums... I'm just sayin'.
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Dec 31, 2013 9:41:50 GMT -5
Post by w8n4dave on Dec 31, 2013 9:41:50 GMT -5
Hmmm well I will keep that in mind Thanks
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Mar 15, 2014 19:04:34 GMT -5
Post by catherinew on Mar 15, 2014 19:04:34 GMT -5
It's March. Did you get your maple syrup 'made'? The ratio of sap to syrup is 40 to 1. Way too much work!
There are lots of places in New England that would love to send you their maple products!!
Some of my faves are in VT. They have a maple festival in April that's filled with great sweets.
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Mar 16, 2014 11:54:47 GMT -5
Post by nightmist on Mar 16, 2014 11:54:47 GMT -5
I used to swap labour for syrup. Swapping buckets, tending the boiler, filling jugs and so on. Now they are afraid they'll break me so if I want any I have to pay cash money. I'm trying to negotiate a barter, but I'm not in a good position for it. The run is still on here. I've thought hard about tapping the trees near my house, but I'm afraid the local kids would mess with it.
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