Great news! The sap is running today..last night was freezing cold and today is warm and sunny. We have been riding Minnie the pony and Hank the Draft Horse every day!
After the sap is collected from the tree, it is boiled to make the water evaporate and leave the sugar behind. The sap gets sweeter and sweeter until it is like syrup. Actually, it starts to boil at 100 C and by the time it is like syrup it is boiling at 104C. Maple syrup is great on pancakes and ice cream and it tastes good in things that you bake like muffins. We've been eating pancakes with syrup every day this week!
We have also been making taffy on the snow. We keep boilg the syrup until it boils at about 120C and when it cools on the snow it turns to taffy. We twist the taffy on a stick and eat it like a sucker! Next posting will be about the Easter Egg Hunt coming up on Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 11am to 2pm.
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