Friday, March 27, 2009

Syrup...sort of!

This morning, we set out to boil our 2+ gallons of Maple sap in hopes of turning it into syrup!

First we strained it through a coffee filter...


Then we poured it into our high tech evaporator... ( a Presto electric frying pan, circa 1974!)

We kept a close eye on it, adding sap throughout the day...

During nap time, we added the last bit of sap. It finally came to what we thought was the right temperature. Hooray!!!!

We poured it into a jar...

...and realized that it was a bit too thick to be considered "syrup". It's more of a cross between Honey and Maple cream. It's still delicious, though!
We'll try again on Monday!



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

yummm!!!

Jesse said...

Is the sap still flowing? Are you still going to try to make syrup again? great idea for a project!

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