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Lizzetta: This weekend, many maple sugar houses in New York state opened their doors and offered demonstrations to the public showing the process of making sap to syrup.
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Lizzetta: During sugar season, a tree can produce over a bucket of sap a day!
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Lizzetta: Kent let us sample the sap- it tastes like slightly sweet water. Looks like water, too.
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Lizzetta: Buckets are the traditional means of collecting syrup, though networks of tubes are used, too. The tubes feed directly into a large covered tub. That means you don't have to collect the contents every day,
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Lizzetta: Daniel and I love maple syrup. Daniel plans to make maple syrup next year, from trees on our property!
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Lizzetta: The process involves boiling off the water. The syrup goes through a series of stainless steel channels as it gets more and more syrup-y.