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Spicy Bean

@spicybeancuisine.bsky.social

Yesterday, I pulled somewhere between 2.5 & 3 gallons of sap from my maples & boiled it down. I got about 1.5 cups of syrup this time. It's interesting how dark this batch came out compared to the first.
#SuburbanSapCollecting #SapSeason #MapleTrees #MapleSyrup #MakingSyrupInTheSuburbs

Photo taken in a kitchen, closeup of three air-tight flip-top bottles lined up in a row, on a cutting board. The bottle on the far left is filled with an amber colored liquid, afixed with a black label that has the words "maple syrup" written in gold marker. The jar in the middle is full of a darker espresso colored maple syrup, while the jar on the right is just under a third full of the same color as the middle jar. The middle and right jars do not have labels yet.

Photo overlooking a pot of boiling sap, sitting on a grate fixed in place by landscaping bricks. Below it, you can see a wood burning fire, surrounded by ashes of previous fires.

Closeup photo of a pan filled with sap being cooked into syrup, it is a rich amber color, and it is just barely starting to come to a boil.

Closeup photo of an old-school Pyrex glass measuring cup filled just about to the 1.5 cup mark with a rich dark maple syrup. The background is just a blurry shot of the rest of the kitchen.

March 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM Everybody can reply

Spicy Bean

@spicybeancuisine.bsky.social

We're rounding the end of our first winter in our house, and my mom gave me a couple of her taps and buckets so I could tap the two maple trees that we have! One is a sugar maple & the other is a red maple.

#maple #sap #TreeTapping #MapleTrees #MapleSyrup #SuburbanSapCollecting #RealMapleSyrup

Photo of a suburban yard in late winter, a wide sugar maple tree is prominent in the foreground. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.

Photo of a wide sugar maple tree at a downward angle, surrounded by the remnants of a late winter's snow. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.

Photo of a suburban yard in late winter, a red maple tree is prominent in the foreground. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.

Photo of a red maple tree at a downward angle, surrounded by the remnants of a late winter's snow. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.

February 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM Everybody can reply

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