Make Maple Syrup, Backyard Sap Boil - GardenFork

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[lineferris]

want to taste something fun and delicious?  boil your maple syrup a bit more, pour some on clean snow making a long narrow trail.  the syrup will harden a bit.  take a craft stick (tongue depressor) and roll up the harden syrup around it.  WOW!  a maple lollipop.  absolutely delicious!  I'm Canadian and that is one of my best childhood memories.

[paulcompton]

A goofy yet wonderfully entertaining and informative tutorial. Thanks!

[gordonmedley]

The HD in this video is substantially better than you older ones. GardenFork videos are some of my favorites to watch on YouTube. Much better than broadcast tv, these folks are real and they care.

Regards from Seattle Eric and Lynn.

[kandisstevens]

Hi, I am a Canadian living in Cape Town South Africa and I have 2 young daughters. My 7 yr old had to provide a Canadian food for her school today so we chose pancakes with real maple syrup (brought here from home). she had no idea about maple syrup so I had her watch your video. she was soooo amazed and told her whole class about how it is made. thanks for sharing such easy steps to making it!

[rileyjohanneson]

Thank you so much for helping! I am
doing a science fair project on tapping a maple tree and I was really stressed out about the making of the syrup. you word things really nicely and it made a huge impact on my project I got such a good grade thank you so much for your help!

[Thompsond]

I like the shots of the dogs as time passes, nice touch!

[barelyfree]

Trying this for the first time this year. Only tapped three trees, two taps per tree. One is definitely producing way more than the others.

[thetobaccoguy]

Very cool. My daughter and I have tapped 4 trees this year and just boiled down our first little batch of around 4 gallons of sap. We ended up with about 2/3 of a pint of extra thick syrup. We boiled ours down a bit longer to get it super rich. We're having a ball.

[gardenfork]

i just keep them in the fridge, but you can pour the hot syrup into the jars with new seals and it should seal it, but i'm not the expert on that part, thanks, eric.

[gardenfork]

thanks Dameion, i've had ratios between 40-1 and 30-1, it depends on a number of things. one of the big bonuses of collecting in buckets rather than tubes and a tank is you can pull a lot of water out of the sap by letting the buckets freeze overnight, then scoop out the ice ( frozen water ) and collect the sap in the morning.

[janetconner]

Thank you for your video. i live in Northern Middle Tennessee. i am going to tap my trees Jan16. This is the first time i've done this here. About 40 years ago I tapped trees in the middle(lower penninsula )of Michigan. We did it there the end of February.The temps are different ere so this should be a good time. Very excited to see how it works. :)

[Jalfam]

Thanks for the refresher, I'm getting ready to boil down about 50 gallons, really looking forward to it and your video taught me a couple things I didn't think of like the candy thermometer and doing most of it outside and finishing it off inside.

[flyingmutley]

Great, if only we had maple trees in UK. Enjoy your videos, keep them coming please.

[jacobfleener]

Just tapped a tree on a whim this year for the first time hoping to make a little syrup this year. thanks for the video

[gardenfork]

thanks for the offer, i tapped 7 trees this weekend, will tap more next weekend. its been cold so far, not a lot of warm days, so none of my neighbors have boiled yet.

[gardenfork]

great to hear you are tapping sugar maple trees. there is a fine line as to when the syrup is done, err on the side of less thick or lower temp, you can always re-heat it again on the stove top. 30 maple tree taps will keep you busy, i plan on tapping more of our sugar maples this year, bought some food grade plastic barrels for collection.

this is a great article, search for: Connecticut Wildlife, January/February 2012 "Make Your Own Maple Syrup"

that's how i learned how to do it. eric.

[louis]

Almost home for another season of maple can’t wait

[GoliathAngelus]

Sure there are.
Even in Holland we have Maple trees but not every country does use them to make Maple Syrup : ( but if you know how to do it and you have a tree in your garden and have the right tooles you can make Maple Syrup : )
Now we know how to make it, thanks to GardenFork !!

[gardenfork]

i've been learning how to identify sugar maples from red maples this summer the leaves and bark are slightly different, going to mark the sugar maples in our yard and tap them in late winter. planning it all in my head. thx, eric.

[robertahubert]

love those dogs.. you could feel the excitement oozing out of them just like the sap from the trees. thanks for the video