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sunwoman3663 posted an update Sunday, Jun 2, 2013, 1:43pm EDT, 12 years, 4 months ago
Shelly.... my dear friend lived in Upstate NY for years and had 50 acres with tons of maple trees. So it was back to nature that first year they bought the property and they decided to tap the trees. DH & sons tapped 200 trees and hauled the sap back to Carol as they filled up. She then boiled it on the stove in a megapot... seriously, it was akin to a bathtub. It boils for hours... 12? 18? 24? I don't remember, but then she'd bottle each batch. For the bazillion buckets of sap and the bazillion hours on the stove she only filled 21 pint bottles! I think it's something ridiculous like 3 gallons reduces to a quart. After that they made a pilgrimage to Vermont every year and bought syrup!!!! It's very likely that whoever served you syrup shortcut the boiling and you did get weak syrup. Carol would say "I wish I'd thought of that!"
Janice
