Have you ever had real maple syrup?

[SuperSix]

I remember tapping the trees, hanging the buckets, and coming back to harvest the liquid. Takes about 50 gallons boiled down to get a qhart of good syrup. (Ok, it's an exaggeration - but not too much)

It's pretty tasty right out of the tree - tastes like slightly sweetened water..

 

[XZeroII]

Real stuff is soooo much better. We used to get it from relatives who would make it themselves. It was soooo awesome.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
I remember tapping the trees, hanging the buckets, and coming back to harvest the liquid. Takes about 50 gallons boiled down to get a qhart of good syrup. (Ok, it's an exaggeration - but not too much)

It's pretty tasty right out of the tree - tastes like slightly sweetened water..

Yep.. During the winter/spring transition, when its warm in the days but freezing at nights.. I used to injur maple trees.. when you would come back the next day, there would be - sometimes pretty large - icecicles hanging off the trees. They were pretty good.