Making Maple Syrup
Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC made our first Maple Syrup Run this year, February 2020. Here is how we made our syrup, following up from our Blog on tapping Maple Trees
What you will need to make Maple Syrup:
- Maple Sap (40 gallons of Sap will make roughly 1 gallon of Maple Syrup.)
- Large Pots is what we used. There are also pans made specifically for Maple Syrup making.
- Something to Boil the sap in the pots on. We used an old wood burning stove that a friend gave us. You could use a well maintained campfire or again a unit that is pre-designed for Maple Syrup making. You could use your kitchen stove top. We did to finish, but that will let a lot of humidity into your home, so not ideal.
- Fuel and Fire/Electricity. We used wood. If you are doing the process the way we have you will need a lot of firewood to boil the sap for multiple days.
- A Hydrometer
- A filter and something to support it. We used a funnel.
- Your choice of storage. We used mason jars.
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| Boiling Sap through the Night and Day to make Syrup. |
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| As our Syrup was boiling down low outside, we brought it into the kitchen to finish up. |
How to, or how we did:
- Pour the Sap from your 5 gallon collection buckets into large pans for boiling.
- Start a fire in the wood stove to heat the Sap to a boil.
- Keep the sap boiling uncovered until most of the water has boiled off. This may take a couple of days.
- When you think the sap may be getting boiled down enough, take a sample and test it with your Hydrometer. Here's a link for how to use your Hydrometer https://www.wikihow.com/Read-a-Hydrometer. Sap reaches Syrup at 66% sugar.
- When the Syrup is ready use a filter to strain the mixture so that you can remove any impurities.
- Pour your strained, 66% sugar Syrup into the jars or containers that you will be storing them in. Refrigeration is recommended. Syrup will keep longest frozen and will not fully freeze.
Make sure whichever methods you use to use all safety precautions and beware the dangers of heat and fire.
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