Some time on or around Saturday, April 2, the sap in my maple tree started running.Details on the harvest to follow, with much number-crunching. Some preliminary observations.
- the sap runs during the day, not so much at night
- right now I'm getting about 1.5L of sap per day
- the sap looks pretty much like water
- the specific gravity of the sap is 1.008 (small but detectable amounts of sugar)
- the sap tastes every so slightly sweet, with some very pronounced flavours: woody, nutty, very "green"
- I think I could drink a glass of the sap with breakfast every morning for the rest of my life
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Now tell everyone the ratio from sap to syrup...! Shocking!
ReplyDeleteUncle Howard would be so proud of you!!
ReplyDeleteRemember how I said it tasted like it must be super healthy for you? It's a fact, as per this article about people in South Korea drinking it:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/world/asia/06maple.html
Forget the syrup, we should just drink it.