I really love maple syrup, and sometimes I run out of it. I tried making it sometimes ago, but it was a total mess🙈 how do I go about making a great maple syrup from my kitchen?
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I really love maple syrup, and sometimes I run out of it. I tried making it sometimes ago, but it was a total mess🙈 how do I go about making a great maple syrup from my kitchen?
Not unless you got a maple tree in your backyard, all you can do is make maple flavored syrup using corn syrup or sugar with maple flavoring. Maple syrup is drained from the maple tree by hammering in a drain pipe letting the zap drip into a bucket. To make true maple syrup you have to have sap from a maple tree. Boil it down until the temperature is 7F above the boiling point of water. Only then will you have maple syrup.
First thing to do is to find a sugar maple tree, tap it and collect the sap when it starts to run in late winter early spring. Put it in a pot, and boil it down until it thickens and becomes syrupy. That is all there is to it. The hard part is collecting sap to make the effort worthwhile, where I live in there is a nature center, a few blocks from my house. Every year they have a festival, part of which, consists of tapping trees, and boiling down maple syrup. It is the best tasting stuff you would ever put on a pancake. Great for the kids to actually see where some food really comes from, and great for adults.