Thank you Brian, If I had a bigleaf maple of suitable size, I would tap it. There is something so comforting about making maple syrup. I do heat with wood and I would put the pot on the wood stove. My long-suffering husband would allow me, unless the drywall started to soften! :-)
What we used to do in the hopes of getting rid of some extra water the easy way was to allow the unboiled sap to freeze somewhat and fish out the ice in the hopes that the solutes and sugar would remain behind, with only the pure water freezing. I think it worked, but I am not sure. That might help get the concentrations up a bit. If nothing else, you could drink the very pure water that you got out- nature doesn't have a finer filtration method than a tree! Ilse zone 7 plus Sammamish, WA On 2/20/2011 8:20 AM, Brian & Kishori Hutchings wrote: > Hi Ilse > Several people hereabouts tap the local bigleaf maples. The syrup is great > but the concentration of the sap flowing out of the trees is much less than > eastern spp. (10-20% i think). > Brian Hutchings > Saltspring Island BC CanadUSDA Zone 7b > _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
