National Maple Syrup Day 12/17!

I LOVE Maple pure maple syrup! I use it a lot also I use maple sugar :)

Wild Angel ✉
Dec '11

Count me in, it's a real treat! Didn't know they made it up in Sussex ... Bryan do you remember how much sap you need for a pint of syrup? It's like alot of trees. Aunt Jemima, move over!!!

Here's a recipe the represents the best of Vermont: Cheese, Apples, and Maple Syrup:

Cheesy Vermont Maple Apple Danish Recipe

http://www.almanac.com/recipe/cheesy-vermont-maple-apple-danish

It's good!!

redmink1 ✉
Dec '11

The best syrup, not to mention more of it, is made in New York instead of Vermont.

http://www.buckhillfarm.com/

They used to run a maple syrup festival every year up there in Jefferson, but I don't think they do it any more.

I have the experience growing up of living on a street lined with sugar maples. The kids all pitched together and did the work. An older one had to actually do the tapping, but even us little ones used a little red wagon with two 10 gallon milk cans way too big for us to empty the buckets every day. There was a bath tub the milk cans were emptied into. One of the older guys would start the fire under the evaporation pan in the next door neighbors yard, the rest of us would take turns tending. The next to last year I was there the older neighbor wasn't around, we were older, and we tried for the first time to do it. His brother who is still 2 years older than I am had the darned time tapping - that's not easy with an old hand drill. Not to mention we did it all old fashioned, not of that ridiculous plastic tube collection crap... But we sort of managed it even though we didn't get nearly as much sap. But then the last year we decided it was just too much. Of course we told ourselves the trees were drying up and should be left a year to themselves. But we knew better. I'm not sure but I don't think they did it again after that.

I seem to remember one of those full 10 gallon cans would produce about a quart. That's a lot of time in front of a wood fire. So much time my mom literally threw out my nice new coat the one year it smelled so bad of wood fire. I didn't mind that at all, many area families heated with wood and it wasn't uncommon in school. But she was totally livid about the smell and how that was a brand new coat she was throwing out.

GC ✉
Dec '11

I love good maple syrup on pancakes or waffles. What a great story, GC...you are a wealth of information...who needs Google when we have GC???

joyful ✉
Dec '11

redmink1 - I grew up in Delaware and Schoharie Counties but I might happen to have taken the wrong side of a claw hammer to a certain rock wall for some sparkle stones. Need I say more?? More recently my brother lived up in Fort Plain/Canjo/Nelliston for a few years. Remember going to Little Falls once or twice while visiting.

Syrup in the snow was one of the staples of the Jefferson festival. I can remember that from when I was 4-5 years old.

joyful - Not google. Think Slum Dog Millionaire - I can know the most detailed answers if you just ask me all the right questions about what I've lived through. ;-)

GC ✉
Dec '11

GC --

"sparkle stones. Need I say more??"

No you don't :)


Mohawk Valley is an interesting place, beautiful to me anyway, and lots of history too.

Warren Co. couldn't be a better match for me!

redmink1 ✉
Dec '11