Collecting and Boiling

On Wednesday we started collecting the sap that was filling out sap buckets quickly.

On Thursday we started boiling sap...

and boiled it....

and boiled it...

and boiled it some more.


It was a long process of boiling, but we managed to get about 2 litres of maple syrup in total. It was much more than I anticipated.


We even managed to get some maple sugar (even if it was a result of boiling too long!).



So, this morning we just had to have some maple syrup on french toast. YUMMY!!

Yummy Pure Canadian Snyders Maple Syrup

This year, we are tapping our maple trees for the first time. We braved the cold wind last night and drilled some holes and hung up some sap buckets.

We can't wait to collect enough sap to boil it down to syrup. The ratio of sap to syrup is 40:1. So, that means, we need to get 40 buckets full of sap to get one bucket of syrup. It was quite exciting when we saw drips of sap coming out of the tree immediately after we put the tap in.

The boys had to keep peeking to see how much was dripping out of the tree.

It will be interesting to see how much we get to make. The boys will be checking those buckets every day (the boys meaning Haden, Garrett AND Tom)!