assateague wrote:Oh, I'm not gonna eat it. Just want to try making. I like adding skills to the repertoire.
It takes extreme patience and diligence. We have or had ten or twelve sugar maple trees in the yard when I was in high school.
My mom decided to have me tap them all. She bought all the stuff and tried making syrup on her electric kitchen stove.
Made the house smell good but she kept scorching it when the pan got dry. Lucky she didn't burn the house down.
We ended up with a pitifully small amount that took me a lot of labor to get.
I was the guy who had to check the dang trees two or three times a day for the time when it freezes at night and thaws during the days. I do like maple syrup and have some now but it's not from Michigan. Some place in Canada.
Log Cabin makes the best syrup.
Buckwheat is that kid with the funny hair and dark complexion on Lil Rascals.
