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That sweet time of year again
Fox:
--- Quote from: Deerhunter21 on February 11, 2021, 03:24:38 pm ---I really wanted to tap some sap one year. I was going to buy the taps and I had a place to do it. Then the day before I was going to go out, the landowner (my dads work friend) decided he didn’t want me to. Wouldn’t give me a reason, but it is his land so I didn’t press him for a reason. Couldn’t find another place to do it lol.
I am going to do it this spring. No way am i not. I can drive now ;D ;D
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You should!
I have taped downtown... usually not too hard to find sugar maple..... also you can make taps out of bamboo or elderberry really easily if you don’t want to buy metal/plastic ones...
Fox:
You can tap sycamores, and hickory, and birch, and black walnut as well.... there not 40 to 1 like sugar maple, maybe more like 60 to 1, but they’ll all have different flavors. Apparently sycamore tastes like caramel :)
Fox:
the first pint ... yum :)
those granular things in the bottom are called sugar sand... I accidentally burnt it a little which caused it I believe... doesn't hurt it :)
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Russ:
can you use the sugar sand like normal sugar? how does it taste! i can imagine it now... maple syrup sugar cake.... -C- ;D
Fox:
Yes deerhunter... it’s kinda like when raw honey gets granular..... it tasted real good :)
Yes a maple sugar cake would be amazing ;D
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