Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Codman Maple Syrup
At Codman Farm, we've begun collecting sap from trees and putting the sap in the evaporator. An evaporator is like a big stove where the sap can sit and the fire below it boils all the water out of the sap. When there is no more water boiling out of the sap, whats left is called the condensed sap, and that is then boiled on a regular kitchen stove and filtered. What comes out of the filter is the final product of maple syrup. The down side to making maple syrup is that you have to constantly feed the fire and it takes 40 gallons of sap straight out of the tree to make one gallon of maple syrup. Yesterday I took home a small cup of Codman Farms' first pint of maple syrup and it is delightful.
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Yummmmy! Sounds delicious. I don't suppose they ship the syrup, do they? I'd love to have some. Perhaps I can still buy some if/when I come up to Arlington at the end of March? Are you allowed to put aside a pint of it for me?
ReplyDeleteMouthwateringly yours, bub