Guide to Maple Tapping

Guide to Maple Tapping
Author: Julie Fryer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2015-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514788455

Fun for all ages and a great way to spend time with friends and family, collecting maple sap and making your own maple syrup is easier than you think - especially with this helpful Guide to Maple Tapping. Filled with step-by-step instructions and photos, this book walks you through the entire process from tapping a tree to enjoying your first stack of pancakes. Whether you're a beginner or a lifelong sugarmaker, you'll find essential information including: - Identifying and selecting the best trees. This updated Second Edition also includes a chapter on tapping and making syrup from non-sugar maple trees such as boxelder, birch, and walnut. - Assembling your supplies and prepping your very own sugar shack - Drilling the taphole and multiple ways to collect sap - Filtering instructions and advice on storage - Complete directions and tips for boiling sap into syrup - Recipes and cooking ideas for using pure maple syrup - Interviews, anecdotes, and advice from professional sugarmakers and lifelong hobbyists - Interesting facts, tips, and much, much more!

How to Make Maple Syrup

How to Make Maple Syrup
Author: Steve Anderson
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1612121713

Presents a beginner's guide to the process of making maple syrup, from tapping the trees to cooking and bottling the syrup, including cooking with evaporators, grading the syrup, building a sugarhouse, pricing, and marketing.

Maple Sugar

Maple Sugar
Author: Tim Herd
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012-10-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1612122116

Explore the fascinating history of maple sugaring in this informative guide to all things syrup. From the tap on the tree to the pancakes on your plate, Tim Held explains every nuanced step of the sugaring process. Learn to identify different kinds of maple trees and get inspired to tap the sugar maples in your backyard. Held also includes tempting recipes that use syrup in old-fashioned treats like maple nut bread, maple eggnog, and pecan pie.

Sugaring

Sugaring
Author: Susan Carol Hauser
Publisher: Lyons Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Maple sugar
ISBN: 9781592283774

Sugaring is the act of collecting maple sap to make maple syrup, an early-spring endeavor that takes place in the Midwest and Northeast United States, and in neighboring areas in Canada. It is a time-honored tradition with Native Americans origins. Sugaring is a beautifully rendered narrative about this soulful activity that slows down time. Interspersed throughout the book's lyrical story are instructions to guide the novice sugarer through every stage of sugaring, from selecting trees and hanging sap buckets to finishing off the syrup. For anyone with an interest in taking up sugaring, everyone who has a maple tree, and all those with nostalgia for the rural landscape, Sugaring will be a joy to discover.

Sweet Maple

Sweet Maple
Author: Michelle Visser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1493037781

Sweet Maple is an instructional book on backyard sugarmaking that’s also the story of one family’s connection to the past on a small New England sugar farm. Throughout its pages, Michelle (the “sugarmaker’s wife”) gives advice on: the 22 different kinds of trees that can be tapped. the process of making syrup, to help you decide what level is right for you. how to make alternative treats, such lilac syrup. the health benefits of maple products, which contain more than 40 antioxidants. substituting processed sugar with all-natural maple syrup in any recipe. the 3 steps to making maple sugar. how to make irresistible maple cream and how to enjoy it. While learning the art of sugarmaking alongside her husband, Michelle guides readers through every step of all-natural syrup production, with directions for tapping one tree or dozens, while detailing the life-changing benefits of using maple syrup in the kitchen.Interspersed with sugaring techniques, tips, sidebars, and storytelling, Michelle shares more than 30 of her family’s tried-and-true maple recipes—from scones to salads.

At Grandpa's Sugar Bush

At Grandpa's Sugar Bush
Author: Margaret Carney
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2002-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781550746716

As his grandpa shows him the traditional way of making maple syrup, a boy finds his bond with nature strengthened.

Sugaring

Sugaring
Author: Jessie Haas
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1996-10-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0688142001

Nora and Gramp are collecting sap from maple trees to make maple syrup. The horses, Bonnie and Stella, are working hard, too, pulling the heavy sap tank through the snow from tree to tree. This third story about Nora and her grandparents brings the beautyof a Vermont farm in early spring vividly to life.

A Kid's Guide to Maple Tapping

A Kid's Guide to Maple Tapping
Author: Julie Fryer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2014-11-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781503193291

Written especially for the young sugarmaker and filled with photos, illustrations, and activities, this book takes the reader from tree to table. You'll learn what trees to tap, how to collect the sap, how to make syrup, and the science behind this age-old process. The book also includes a special section for adults with step-by-step instructions on home sugaring.