Maple Syrup

[QueenBea]

Last weekend I had a family reunion at my daughter's and her and her partner had the sap they have been collecting from heir maple trees reducing over an open fire.






They started it in the wee hours of the morning and let it go for close to 20 hours. A little over 45 liters of sap came down to this much syrup...



Liquid gold!!! No wonder the stuff is so expensive, so much work involved

[Tisme]

Ohhh Wow.... look at that!
That is so interesting Bea!
This might sound like a silly question, but what kind of tree?
I know it probably is a maple tree, but is it a special variety?
I find this kind of thing so interesting, I grow a lot of bush tucker ( Native Australian Bushfoods).

[QueenBea]

There are many types of maple trees and they all produce sap that can be made into maple syrup, but the best kind is actually called a "Sugar Maple" tree. I am not sure why but it produces a richer, tastier syrup.
I have never heard of a bush tucker, interesting!!! What do they produce?

[Sue]

I always thought of bush tucker being what we call foraged foods. Morels, blackberries, poke sallet.
We used to go to a maple syrup festival up in Sugarcreek and they had kettles boiling down the sap.

[QueenBea]

I often wonder how one came up with the idea of boiling the sap to make syrup... Let's make a hole in this tree, collect the sap that comes out of it then boil it until there is almost nothing left....

[Shadows1]

Makes me wonder about all foods!
Let's get Gary over there to try this and see if he lives! LOL

Great photos Bea, reminds me of one of our friends who sugared.
It definitely is labor intensive.

[QueenBea]

Makes me wonder about all foods!
Let's get Gary over there to try this and see if he lives! LOL

Great photos Bea, reminds me of one of our friends who sugared.
It definitely is labor intensive.
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[Shadows1]

I can honestly say we have a Sugar Maple or two in our yard and one winter a major branch broke from ice and the sap was dripping for several days before it stopped. Might be how sugaring was discovered.

[Tisme]

I often wonder how one came up with the idea of boiling the sap to make syrup... Let's make a hole in this tree, collect the sap that comes out of it then boil it until there is almost nothing left....

lol....
I thought I was the only one who wondered those sorts of things.

Bush tucker, is any food that's native to Australia. It has always been used as sustenance by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Bush Tucker is a range of Australian native plants with edible fruits, nuts, seeds and leaves. All indigenous food native to the land.
My favorite is Finger Lime. I am impatiently waiting for mine to grow.

Just a few are Desert quandong, Bunya nut, Desert lime,Lemon myrtle, Bush coconut and Bush Tomato.

[QueenBea]

I can honestly say we have a Sugar Maple or two in our yard and one winter a major branch broke from ice and the sap was dripping for several days before it stopped. Might be how sugaring was discovered.

That is probably a very close deduction Lee!