World News

33085 readers

742 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

349

Canada's maple syrup reserve almost empty as sap season at risk of becoming another casualty of the winter that wasn't (www.thestar.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Sap itself is essentially water. You probably… could just drink it alone but don’t. It’s weird and a little gross.

You basically just pour it all in a vat and boil it down. It boils down at a 40:1 ratio. 40 gallons of sap is about one gallon of syrup.

You just boil it until it reaches the correct sugar concentration, or until you’re pretty satisfied

[–] QuaternionsRock 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Gross as in it tastes bad raw?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I haven’t tried it in any significant quality, it’s incredibly close to normal water at that concentration. Maybe a bit woody, really not sweet.

It’s also just unprocessed tree-water you get from a bucket and I’m not an expert on the health and safety of all that but yunno, to me it’s something I’d want at least boiled first.

[–] QuaternionsRock 1 points 10 months ago

It didn’t seem that different from like… tree fruit juice, but based on some of the comments I’ve gotten, it doesn’t sound like it would be very pleasant.

load more comments (1 replies)