Maple boil

With Kate, Oli, Fin and Eliza at their place in Ottawa. They’d been collecting maple sap for a few weeks from the tree at the front of their house. When the temperature is above freezing during the day and below freezing during the night, the trees pump sap. It took about 8 hours to boil 80 litres of sap down into 2 litres of syrup – towards the end of the process you need to be watching the temperature of the mixture like a hawk, and when it gets to 103 degrees you’re done. Tastes so good. Was lovely to spend the weekend with old buddies.