Maple syrup

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Traditional means of tapping for maple syrup; the bucket catches maple sap, which is then boiled down into the syrup

Maple syrup is a sweet syrup made from the boiled-down sap of maple trees. It is often eaten with pancakes or waffles. It is produced and is popular in Canada and the Northeastern United States, especially Vermont.

A single maple tree can tolerate several taps; each tap can produce about ten gallons of sap during the four to six week sugaring season. Ten gallons of sap boil down to about a quart of syrup, and and requires three quarts of fuel oil for heating.^[1] An average producer can manage about 500 taps, produces about 400 quarts of syrup in a season with a gross value of about $4,000.^[2]

Notes and references

1. ↑ How Maple Syrup is Made, Massachusetts Maple Producers association: several taps per tree, ten gallons of sap per tap, one quart of syrup from ten gallons, 60 gallons of fuel oil to boil 800 gallons of sap.
2. ↑ Maple Syrup, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture; figures used to compute averages, converted, rounded