We filtered our three liters of sugar maple sap, and put it into the pot to boil. It’d be more fun to do this over an open fire outside; but we couldn’t wait that long. The sap is almost all water. In fact, it takes about 40 parts sap to boil down to 1 part syrup. Basically, you just boil away the water and what’s left is the sugary, syrup. We boiled, and boiled, and boiled…this takes a while. As it gets near the bottom, it changes consistency a little (still pretty watery) and it begins to change from clear in color to more of a golden syrup color. Another thing I learned is that real maple syrup is much thinner than the store bought brand name syrups we normally use. We finally got down to the best syrup and I could not believe just how sweet it was! This was a great experience and something we will definitely do again.
The boys, enjoying the fruits of our labor.
Galloway Farm 
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