How is maple sugar made?
While cold winter nights drive the sap to return to its roots, spring that happens usually between February and April does otherwise, to give out sustenance on the rising leaves. When this occurs, tapping shall begin too. Tapping a maple tree requires that a hole be drilled in a likely upward manner so as to turn aside sap from drawing together right to the hole, thereby leading the stem to freeze and rupture. This sap may be collected traditionally through the use of pails or canvass bags hanged directly to catch the dripping sap and then sent to the sugar house for processing or contemporarily, through the aid of pipes and pipelines, where in the sap is directly dripped through a channel of pipes that connects the sugar house to the orchard. The process of turning this sap into what we know now as maple syrup begins. The course of action entails high temperatures, as the maple tree juice are transported from heat pan to heat pan, leading to the employment of evaporation, wherein flui