Make Your Own Maple Syrup. You boil off the water in the sap to get the sweet syrup. Its also used in baking recipes such as desserts.
You need this sugar-free pancake syrup to complete your low carb breakfast. Candies traditionally shaped in molds as maple leaves are made by boiling the syrup to 243 degrees and then stirring the syrup while it is hot and pouring into molds before it sets up. My children used to boil the syrup and then roll the candy into little balls pressing in nutmeats.
Birch for example takes about 100 gallons of sap to make syrup.
Once the weather warms and trees start to bud then sap will not have the sugar required to make maple syrup. Simmer 3 minutes longer. Michelle January 8. Build your own Reverse Osmosis system for maple syrup.
