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Dec 17, 2017 13:17:29   #
buffalo Loc: Texas
 
pafret wrote:
We have a lot of sugar maples around my property and when my kids were young they decided to tap some trees and make maple syrup, on the sneak. One of the neighbor kids was the ring leader because his father had done this in Vermont, when he was a boy, and still had taps and pails. They took one of the biggest cookpots we had, gathered up the sap on a daily basis and when the pot was full they used one of my propane tanks to power a Coleman stove. Then they used my second Propane tank. They went through two full tanks and weren't done. I found out what they were doing, when I tried to grill and had no Propane. They had destroyed the pot, it couldn't be cleaned; the reduced glop looked unlike any syrup that I ever saw. No one in their right mind would put that stuff in their mouths.

Two tanks of propane $20. One pot $65. Cost of 1 Quart of Maple Syrup in the supermarket $4.50. I figured if you didn't have a forest to provide fuel for the syrup reduction, you could not afford to make your own.
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Good grief, pafret! The cheap stuff is $10.00/pint here in central Texas.

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Dec 17, 2017 13:22:09   #
buffalo Loc: Texas
 
pafret wrote:
Wamba and Buffalo:

You guys are piling up points in heaven. I have had to deal with my sick parents as well as my wife’s but they fortunately retained their sense until their deaths. It is my greatest fear that I will fall into senility and become a burden on my own family. Every lapse of memory triggers that concern anew.

In conversations with my son, he recalls things, which I have completely forgotten and surprisingly I have remembered things, which he has forgotten. I surmised that memory retention depends on what interest you had, in what ever transpired. That said, those senior moments in which you can't remember something that you absolutely knew yesterday are scary.

That doesn’t stop me from assuring him he has an excellent memory because he can recall events, which never occurred.

I am the last surviving member of my parent’s family and the oldest living member of my own extended family. My children still come to me for advice, which they promptly ignore. I have lived long enough to realize you have to ride the horse the way you want, English, Western or Sidesaddle.
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My only son is the last of those with our family name. At 45 he had his second child in June and it was another girl. His 24 year old daughter has a 2 1/2 year old son that is the light of my life and is expecting another boy in February. Of course the boys will have their fathers last name.

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Dec 17, 2017 14:50:51   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
buffalo wrote:
Good grief, pafret! That is cheap. I ran out of the pint my daughter gave me this summer from their batch. Looking at the store for some the other day. I found some cheap stuff for $10.00/pint.


My children were "kids" in 1977, The youngest is now 48 so that was pricey back then. I haven't Bought Maple Syrup in about twenty years. My wife's diabetes as well as my own, which I developed later, put that on the no-no list as well as anything I could use it on. Waffles and Pancakes don't have any appeal without syrup.

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Dec 17, 2017 15:41:55   #
son of witless
 
pafret wrote:
We have a lot of sugar maples around my property and when my kids were young they decided to tap some trees and make maple syrup, on the sneak. One of the neighbor kids was the ring leader because his father had done this in Vermont, when he was a boy, and still had taps and pails. They took one of the biggest cookpots we had, gathered up the sap on a daily basis and when the pot was full they used one of my propane tanks to power a Coleman stove. Then they used my second Propane tank. They went through two full tanks and weren't done. I found out what they were doing, when I tried to grill and had no Propane. They had destroyed the pot, it couldn't be cleaned; the reduced glop looked unlike any syrup that I ever saw. No one in their right mind would put that stuff in their mouths.

Two tanks of propane $20. One pot $65. Cost of 1 Quart of Maple Syrup in the supermarket $4.50. I figured if you didn't have a forest to provide fuel for the syrup reduction, you could not afford to make your own.
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I get interested in something just to learn how to do it, then I promptly get bored. All of my life I saw films of people making syrup. About 30 years ago I decided I needed more shade in my front yard and ordered two sugar maples. Kill two birds with one stone. Well let me tell you if I had to do it over again I wouldn't. The way the sun hits the shade isn't all that good. I've had to spend good money getting these monsters trimmed back. I started with buckets and went to bags when I tapped the trees. They make nice metal bag holders. It is better than the buckets because no matter what I did I couldn't keep the gnats out of the buckets of sap.

Tasting the fresh sap it tastes like water. It is positively amazing how much water you have to cook out to get anything. Then you have to make sure you don't over cook it. If you want maple sugar that is fine, but once it goes to sugar you can't get it back to syrup unless you keep it hot. Once it cools it goes back to sugar.

The amazing thing thing I discovered by accident is that maple syrup does not freeze, at least in a freezer. One year I decided it would be cool to make maple syrup ice cubes. They would not freeze.

I evaporate my sap on the coal stove and then finish it off on the kitchen stove. Each year I burn less coal because I am getting lazy as I age and Natural gas keeps getting cheaper. At some point I have to make decisions about whether it is worth doing. Just to say you make your own syrup. Although the people I give it to rave about it. If I retire as I soon hope to then maybe I might continue.

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