Maple Syrup! YUMMMMMM! YUMMMMM!!!My husband and several others spent the majority of the weekend tending the fire under about 600 gallons of maple sap. The sap was collected by four area families. Around 3:00 this afternoon, it was finally ready to be canned. We ended with about 18 gallons of beautiful amber Iowa Maple Syrup. I wish there were a way to make this photo a scratch-n-sniff, the smell is incredible! We'll finish the last 400 or so gallons next weekend and hope to get another 12-14 gallons or so. The white tanks in the back of the truck in this photo are 18 gallon containers, full of more sap. The taste of this on morning pancakes makes the mud of March in Iowa worth it! You can see the whole maple syrup process in the margin to the right.
6 comments:
Looks wonderful!!!! I can smell it now. You did it outside this year??
We always do this outside, usually in entrance to the machine shed. One year we got it in too far and it started raining INSIDE the machine shed from all the evaporation of sap!
Can I buy some???
Well yes the bulk of the machine is outside, with the men parked conveniently inside.
Michael G., when next you are in the area, call me and just come up and get a jar, you don't have to buy it from me, you nut, you're like family!
We finished our jar last year in a week! It is amazing. I got the whole family to the computer to see. THEY LOVED IT.
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