Turning Sap into Syrup

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Pouring sap into the boiler to begin the long process of boiling it down into syrup.

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A boiler at work turning sap into syrup.

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Filtering the sap that has boiled down some, but is not yet syrup.

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A crowd watching as sap is boiled down into syrup.

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Checking the temperature as the process continues.

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Vern Fish watching the sryup that is leaving the boiler and strained through a filter.

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Maple Sugar Sand is the salt debris that settles out of sap once it has reached a high sugar concentration.

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The final product!

After maple sap has been harvested from the trees, that sap must be boiled down into maple syrup. Since the sap has a very low amount of sugar, it take a long time to boil down the sap into the sweet, thick maple sryup.