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.