I know this blog is mostly dedicated for chicken talk but I've been desperately itching to try my hand out with my very own backyard sugarin'. Unfortunately, when I look out my window to my "backyard" all I see is some cracked black top and three snow covered cars. Gotta love apartment life right?
So instead, I took a little ride to my parents house in Cheshire and convinced my hibernating father to come out into the cold with me and tap some trees. The conversation went something like this.
Me: "C'mon Dad, lets do it, it'll be so awesome."
Dad: "But honey, it's so cold out, you don't wanna go out there, let's just do it on a nice warm day."
Me: "Pleeeeeeassseeee."
So after teasing him a little bit about being a big softy with the cold, I finally convinced him. Together we used a couple old water jugs with some holes screwed in them, a couple pipe nipples from Tractor Supply, and some some old wire to keep the jugs secure. The end result? We tapped only two trees. I've heard that about 35 gallons of sap will be boiled down to one gallon of syrup....If I'm lucky, I'll probably get enough syrup for one pancake. At the very least it will be one delicious pancake!
I'll keep you posted with how my syrup endeavors go...that is if anyone out there in blogger land even reads this. Anyone? Maybe?
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that sounded sexual.
LOL.