Put the pot of fresh maple sap over high heat. Wait until boiling and evaporate for several hours on the quietest fire. Strain the syrup while it is hot through several layers of cheesecloth. Strained maple syrup is poured into sterilized jars, rolled up under the lids.
How to cook maple syrup
Products Fresh maple sap – 10 liters How to collect maple sap 1. Insert a metal corner or tap into a wide-bore (from 50 centimeters in diameter) maple at a height of 70-90 centimeters. The depth of the hole should be 5-6 centimeters, diameter – 1-1.5 centimeters. 2. Substitute a bucket or hang a bottle, protect, if necessary, from insects with a cloth. 3. Wait 12 hours, from 1 maple you will get about 2 liters of maple sap. And for 10 liters of juice, you need to collect juice from 5 trees. More juice to collect is dangerous for the health of the tree. 4. Drive a wooden plug into the resulting hole so that the wound of the tree heals faster. 5. Strain maple juice – and you can start cooking syrup. How to cook maple syrup1. Pour maple juice into a large saucepan or metal tub. 2. Put a pot of maple juice over a fire or on an electric stove on a high heat – you need to cook maple syrup outside, otherwise, during the evaporation process, the steam formed in a large amount will remain on the furniture with a sticky film. 3. Wait for the maple sap to boil, evaporate water from it for several hours. 4. As the water evaporates and there is room in the pot, add more maple sap until the water has evaporated from all the maple sap. 5. Strain the evaporated maple syrup while it is hot through several layers of gauze or special cotton filters to remove twigs and sediment that have fallen into it. 6. Thoroughly wash and sterilize half-liter jars: put the jars in a cold oven on the grate upside down, turn on the oven at 150 degrees, hold the jars for 15 minutes, remove. 7. Strained maple syrup pour into sterilized jars, close with airtight lids.
Tasty Facts
— Traditionally, maple syrup is made from sugar maple, which, due to its predisposition to the climate, is found only in Canada and North America. You can distinguish sugar maple from holly maple by juice – it is transparent without whitish inclusions. The second most used tree for maple sap production is red maple, but it only grows in America. – The impossibility of import substitution and high costs in the production and delivery of maple syrup from the juice of traditional sugar maple made the cost of this product for Russians and neighboring countries incredibly high: the cost of a 0.3 liter bottle is more than 800 rubles. (on average in Moscow as of July 2019). — The consequence of the high cost of maple syrup, in turn, was a large number of fakes in our market: instead of sugar maple, the common Norway maple is often used in our forests. – Juice to obtain maple syrup is boiled 50 times. 10 liters of maple sap will make a 0.2-liter jar of syrup. — On the palate, maple syrup has a slight woody flavor, very sweet, but the peculiarity of maple sap, despite the concentration of sugar, is its organic taste, it is not cloyingly sweet. – Maple sap collection time is from February to April, when maple sap is the sweetest. – According to legend, the Indians were the first to get maple sap when an Indian trained to throw a tomahawk at the trunk of a maple tree. From the holes where the tomahawk fell, liquid began to ooze. The sister of the young warrior tasted it, and when she felt a sweetish aftertaste, she decided to use it for food. – Juice to obtain maple syrup is boiled 50 times. 10 liters of maple sap will make a 0.2-liter jar of syrup. — On the palate, maple syrup has a slight woody flavor, very sweet, but the peculiarity of maple sap, despite the concentration of sugar, is its organic taste, it is not cloyingly sweet. – Maple sap collection time is from February to April, when maple sap is the sweetest. – According to legend, the Indians were the first to get maple sap when an Indian trained to throw a tomahawk at the trunk of a maple tree. From the holes where the tomahawk fell, liquid began to ooze. The sister of the young warrior tasted it, and when she felt a sweetish aftertaste, she decided to use it for food. – Juice to obtain maple syrup is boiled 50 times. 10 liters of maple sap will make a 0.2-liter jar of syrup. — On the palate, maple syrup has a slight woody flavor, very sweet, but the peculiarity of maple sap, despite the concentration of sugar, is its organic taste, it is not cloyingly sweet. – Maple sap collection time is from February to April, when maple sap is the sweetest. – According to legend, the Indians were the first to get maple sap when an Indian trained to throw a tomahawk at the trunk of a maple tree. From the holes where the tomahawk fell, liquid began to ooze. The sister of the young warrior tasted it, and when she felt a sweetish aftertaste, she decided to use it for food. but the peculiarity of maple sap, despite the concentration of sugar, is the organicity of its taste, it is not cloyingly sweet. – Maple sap collection time is from February to April, when maple sap is the sweetest. – According to legend, the Indians were the first to get maple sap when an Indian trained to throw a tomahawk at the trunk of a maple tree. From the holes where the tomahawk fell, liquid began to ooze. The sister of the young warrior tasted it, and when she felt a sweetish aftertaste, she decided to use it for food. but the peculiarity of maple sap, despite the concentration of sugar, is the organicity of its taste, it is not cloyingly sweet. – Maple sap collection time is from February to April, when maple sap is the sweetest. – According to legend, the Indians were the first to get maple sap when an Indian trained to throw a tomahawk at the trunk of a maple tree. From the holes where the tomahawk fell, liquid began to ooze. The sister of the young warrior tasted it, and when she felt a sweetish aftertaste, she decided to use it for food. where the tomahawk hit, liquid began to ooze. The sister of the young warrior tasted it, and when she felt a sweetish aftertaste, she decided to use it for food. where the tomahawk hit, liquid began to ooze. The sister of the young warrior tasted it, and when she felt a sweetish aftertaste, she decided to use it for food.