[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[charliehill]

I suspect you could do a very small batch in the house in a double boiler.

Charlie
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From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
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> Umm, This is more in depth than I figured. I was going to boil on stove in
> the house. Sounds like I had better start researching.  This is very
> interesting. I have one tree, 4 ft across, it literally rain sap, I have
> another 3 about 2-3 ft across. I was just going to collect 5 gallons and 
> see
> what happened. Like I say, I will research.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul-IN
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> From: "Henry Miller" <hank at millerfarm.com>
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>> If you haven't figguered out how/where you are going to boil the sap 
>> don't
>> bother starting.   I learned this the hard way when I was 14.   My
>> neighbor had the spouts, and buckets were easy to find.  Nobody had
>> anything useful for boiling sap.  We ended up with about 200 gallons of
>> sap, and were dumping some for lack of storage!  (I'm not sure how much 
>> we
>> dumped, I think we were collecting 10 gallons a day)
>>
>> What we tried was a hot water bath canner on a barrel wood stove.  Never
>> got hot enough to boil anything despite plenty of dry wood to work with.
>> I was told my friend's parents had tried boiling in the house a few years
>> before, but the house got all sticky.
>>
>> You don't need everything now, but if you don't have a plan and all the
>> equipment on order, you could be wasting time.
>>
>> Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On Mar 13, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Paul Waugh wrote:
>>>
>>>> I will try the copper pipe and screw. Thanks
>>>
>>>Ask around the town. You may find someone who's got buckets full of
>>>the made-to-purpose spigots that simply tap into the hole, and who is
>>>not planning to use them now.
>>>
>>>You'll need some buckets, too.
>>>
>>>Note: about one barrel (50 gallons) of sap is needed for a gallon of
>>>syrup.  You'll need a big pile of sawmill scraps to feed the fire.
>>>
>>>Roy
>>>
>>>
>>>Roy Morgan
>>>k1lky at earthlink.net
>>>529 Cobb St.
>>>Groton NY, 13073
>>>
>>>
>>>
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