{"id":704,"date":"2012-02-23T21:25:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daringdrake.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2012-02-23T23:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:36:41","slug":"i-agreed-to-what-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/i-agreed-to-what-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"I agreed to what"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have been extremely busy this winter w\/ a million different projects.\u00a0 After a hard day, Idunn needed a shot of maple syrup (locally bought) for stress relief or something.\u00a0 I obliged and took a shot glass out and poured the syrup thick and cold.\u00a0 Idunn asked when we were going to tap our trees, something I mentioned in the fall and was now hoping the idea had been lost.\u00a0 This is an activity we haven’t done on our farm in the past.<\/p>\n

So we started tapping on the 10th,\u00a0 a week or two later than many maple producers.<\/p>\n

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The taps started slowly the first couple days.\u00a0 Idunn and I walked the bucket line on the third day w\/ the aforementioned shot glass to taste some sap but\u00a0 really just check the buckets to make sure sap was not cascading over the edge.\u00a0 No, I was told we had to taste from every<\/span><\/strong> bucket!\u00a0 It was amazing to detect subtle differences between taps in what is a very mild tasting liquid, that in no way resembles the final product.<\/p>\n

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We had enough sap for a cook down on the 18th.\u00a0 Now mind you, I haven’t had time to buy a pan to cook the sap down (deep pots take longer to cook due to the small surface area for evaporation).\u00a0 We didn’t let that stop us, we only had about 25 gallons to cook down (~1\/2gallon+ syrup).\u00a0 Got it done in the end and man is fresh maple syrup tasty.\u00a0 The south can keep their Karo knock off, the north east got it good.\u00a0 I will be in Ithaca to pickup a large pan before we cook 60 gallons this weekend!\u00a0 John<\/p>\n

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We have been extremely busy this winter w\/ a million different projects.\u00a0 After a hard day, Idunn needed a shot of maple syrup (locally bought) for stress relief or something.\u00a0 I obliged and took a shot glass out and poured the syrup thick and cold.\u00a0 Idunn asked when we were going to tap our trees, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}