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Harvesting Sweet Maple Syrup from the Forest! - Delicious Pancake Breakfast

Harvesting Sweet Maple Syrup from the Forest! - Delicious Pancake Breakfast

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We make home made maple syrup from a DIY evaporator. We collect over 50 liters of sap into maple syrup at our small cabin in the woods. This is about making something delicious, from the land, using the trees around us. Liquid sap turns to delicious maple syrup at a ratio of about 40: 1. We will drizzle our syrup over made pancakes made on the stove in our tiny off grid cabin. Over the course of the season we will see just how much maple syrup we can make. To make 1 liter of syrup, we need to collect and boil down about 40 liters of sap. This takes a lot of time and patience to boil off most of the water to leave mostly sugar in the syrup. Spring is really a great time to get outside and catch up on all the missed sunshine and get much needed fresh air and vitamin D from the sun. We use the tractor this season to help us collect as well as a pull sled. Pails are cheap, and re-used from the bakery section at the grocery store. We drill in holes in the sugar maples at an upward angle and the sap will flow anytime the temperatures change from below freezing to above freezing. The sap will stop flowing as the season wears on, so timing is critical. The sap starts off really clear, but will be richer and darker as the season goes on. We filter our sap through a t-shirt, but you may want to use something finer like cheese clothe. We find that the extra stuff just enhances the flavor profile of the final syrup. To make maple sugar, just keep boiling the syrup and it will boil off all the water leaving just sugar. Syrup forms at 220F or 107C and should be removed, cooled and then stored in tight containers. It can be kept frozen for a very long time, or refrigerated for a few months. If mold forms, scoop it off and you can still eat it, but the flavor will be off. Serve fresh maple syrup over pancakes, french toast, or just drink it straight up. I'll show you how to tap a tree, talk about the right conditions for sap flow, the concentration of sugar in sap, how we collect and boil the sap from start to finish! I'll show you how maple syrup is made using a cheap homemade evaporator! I'll show you have to make a homemade maple syrup evaporator for cheap or FREE! Our annual spring tradition in Canada continues with MAPLE SYRUP production. We collect sap and boil our first run with a MASSIVE haul of 9 POUNDS of maple SUGAR! We do it on an open fire! UPDATE: I'm now up to over 25 lbs of SUGAR! I'll show you how to tap a tree, talk about the right conditions for sap flow, the concentration of sugar in sap, how we collect and boil the sap from start to finish! I'll show you how maple syrup is made using a cheap homemade evaporator! I'll show you have to make a homemade maple syrup evaporator for cheap or FREE!
Date: 2021-05-17

Comments and reviews: 10


I just make my first french toast with Ahorn syrup, woooooow! Nice video about how to gain this fantastic natural product. I hope that all those special three's will never burn because of the climat change! Thank you guy's for this nice video. I am not american but we learn about real usefull things in this life. Here Belgium greetings.
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This is my first time making syrup from my maple trees. I had to boil it down in batches, but I think I may have reduced it too far. it's VERY crystallized. almost hard. I still have fresh sap. can I add that to what I have and fix it? I probably have about a quart of 'syrup'. it's really good, but I'd have to heat it to use it.
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In the frozen north of Ontario. You can be charged -10To -15 can dollars for a litre. Where do you think you can get -50 a litre. When you start up the evaporator just a quarter fill it. Then once its on a boil pre heat the rest of the sap. Easy way would be to hang metal can in evaporator to heat up sap.
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When I was a child I would go to my uncles sugar shack in Quebec. His maple syrup was always thicker and darker than what is sold today. But the French Canadians would make maple syrup pie when they had to much syrup. I also had poached eggs in maple syrup mix 50/50 with water.
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My grandpa always made syrup I think he had a sugar shack bit he had a huge pot he would put it over a fire and it would be the best maple syrup ever, even my uncle got married in a sugar bush by Ottawa so there a lot of this sort of stuff in my family
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Coming from Australia I thought you just put a hole in the tree and maple syrup flows out! Wow you need to boil it!
I am intrigued about the ice containing sugar (or not. Maybe you could do a boil of just ice and see what you get?

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been doing some boiling myself. Last weekend we ended up with 2. 25L and this weekend 2. 5l of finished syrup. We still have a ton of sap in the bush that was frozen into the buckets. That will be next weekends boil!
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I built an evaporator out of a barrel stove. I will gladly build a fresh new one and donate it if a company isn't smart enough to. (Mine doesn't work any better than what you already use though)
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I would think that using a sealed evaporator under vacuum with a fire beneath not only would be faster but possibly less risk of scorching your syrup due to processing at a lower temp.
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Watching this video and thinking that there is a lot of trees so close to each other, Why not do a tree house build with your kids. They will learn and have their own tree shack.
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