I know where Maple Syrup comes from, but can I make it at home?!
4 cups white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp light corn syrup
2 cups water
1 tsp vanilla flavoring
1 tsp maple flavoring
In medium saucepan, stir together first four ingredients until dissolved. Bring to boil. Cover, gently boil for 10 minutes--do not stir! Remove from heat, cool slightly. Add vanilla and maple flavoring. Serve warm or let cool before serving. Store leftover syrup in fridge.
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Answers: Maple Syrup
4 cups white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp light corn syrup
2 cups water
1 tsp vanilla flavoring
1 tsp maple flavoring
In medium saucepan, stir together first four ingredients until dissolved. Bring to boil. Cover, gently boil for 10 minutes--do not stir! Remove from heat, cool slightly. Add vanilla and maple flavoring. Serve warm or let cool before serving. Store leftover syrup in fridge.
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Yes, first you need to tap some sugar bush and collect the syrup than you can heat that syrup in a shallow pan on the stove until most of the water evaporates off and it is a certain consistency. Than you pour it into a container to keep. It works better if you have the correct equipment in a separate building and a lot of wood ready for it.
If you have maple trees in your yard you can. Drill an inch wide hold in the tree a couple inches deep and put a spigot in it...attach a bucket underneath it to catch the sap. It flows generally in the Spring with it's below freezing at night but above during the day. Empty daily as it should fill quickly...yu then boil it for hours to reduce it down to syrup and caramalize some of the sugars....it takes like 20 gallons of sap to get one gallon of syrup though.
You need maple trees to make maple syrup. Adding maple flavoring to corn syrup is both disgusting and NOT maple syrup- it is the same as Aunt Jemima or one of those crappy pancake syrups.
In the spring when it's warm during the day but still freezes at night, drill a small hole 1/2" by 2"deep into the side of a decent-sized maple tree. Insert a spout, and hang a covered bucket from it.
Slowly boil the sap in a shallow pan on the stove until it is greatly reduced and syrupy. Your house will smell delicious.
CAUTION: the amount of steam may cause your wallpaper to peel, it takes 10gallons of sap to make 1quart of syrup.
Almost Maple Syrup
Ingredients:
1 c Brown sugar
1/3 c Water
1/8 ts Salt
1/4 ts Vanilla extract
Instructions:
In saucepan dissolve sugar in water. Add salt and boil for 1 minute. Add
vanilla and mix well. Serve warm. Yield: 3/4 cup.