Pancakes

My Dad has been teaching the girls about making Maple Syrup this year. J especially, is thrilled with the whole process. I am thrilled that they are able to learn to do this!

We started by marking several Maple trees in the Fall before all of the leaves were gone. All of the trees are bare this time of year, and it would have been difficult to distinguish the Maples from everything else otherwise.

Early in February, the girls went out with my Dad and helped to pound the taps in...



...and hang buckets on them. On most of the days since then, they have helped with collecting the sap daily. We collect the most on days where it was freezing or below overnight and warmer during the day.



Dad dumps all of the sap (after picking various insects out) into the canner and starts cooking it down on the camp stove out under his deck. The ratio of sap to syrup is about 40 to 1, so there is a lot of cooking to do!



So far, he has made this much syrup (minus some for various meals)!



We brought a couple of bottles home this weekend, and ate home made pancakes with home made Maple Syrup on them for breakfast yesterday! Deee-licious!