[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[Larry Mason]

Since you are going to boil 35 G of sap from a sugar maple to get 1 G of 
syrup, it is not a good idea to do any of this indoors.
When we first started, we used a stainless steel pan like they use in a 
salad bar supported by two rows of concrete blocks, with the opening facing 
the way the wind blows. Build the fire under the pan between the concrete 
blocks. We would keep track of how much sap we added, and when it was down 
to about a 2 to 1 consistency, we would drain the sap off and cook it on a 
smaller scale (either inside or over a Coleman stove. The key is not to burn 
it. A thermometer is good to have at this point. I think that when the syrup 
got to 218 degrees it was done. It would froth up and had to be removed from 
the heat immediately (unless you were going to make candy). If you need more 
details, I would have to look at my books to refresh my memory. Good luck.
Larry Mason
Hackensack MN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad


> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Henry Miller" <hank at millerfarm.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad
>
>
>> 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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