Monday, March 9, 2009

Our own Sugaring Off...

We headed to Acorn Cottage this weekend to attempt our own sugaring off (click here for more information). We assumed we wouldn't get much as we only had 10 maple trees on our property. The weather has to be below freezing at night and warm above freezing during the day to allow the sap to run out of the spouts in the trees - into the buckets. It has been great weather for this until the weekend we picked to go down - and it was above 40 all weekend! We managed about 8 oz of sap - on a weekend with the right weather -we would get a lot more. When you collect the sap, it needs to be boiled for the sap to turn into "Maple Syrup" - as you can see by the photos - we didn't have enough. -But it was fun all the same!


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Have you ever been to a Sugaring Off?

7 comments:

Jan said...

Never. But is sure looks fun and delicious.

Marie said...

Okay, how cool is that that you got to try that with the kids! That is totally great.

donna said...

wow your family always have so much fun.

michelle said...

I never have. It looks like so much fun! :)

dani said...

no, michelle, never... however, when my parents lived in new hampshire i got to see the process:)
yum, maple syrup!!!
love,
dani

goodpeoplegoodtimes said...

Never been to a 'sugaring off'...tht is very cool. Homemade maple syrup-YUM!

Jenny said...

I have always wanted to do this! Lucky!!!!