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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Jackie Kuehn <jakuehn@verizon.net>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Maple sugaring at home
  • Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:59:56 -0600

Melissa Kacalanos asked, "Would a crock pot work for maple syrup?"

Some Native Americans used crockery for cooking before the White Man introduced them to iron kettles. Typically though, a hollowed out log was used for boiling sap. Rocks were heated in a fire which, after they were thoroughly heated, were picked up, gurney style, with wet poles and dropped into the sap. To make maple sugar, the finished syrup was placed into birch bark bowls which were placed over the fire.
A neat "gee whiz" experiment is to fill a styrofoam cup with water. Then burn it gently around its circumference and you may understand why the birch bowls didn't burn.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
For jams, jellies, syrups and more:
www.jellygal.com
1-877-265-6856 (Toll Free)
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)




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