Imagination
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2006-Mar-11
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Maple Sugaring
Yesterday, I went on a field trip with my homeschool co-op to Mill
Grove, the home of James Audobon. We were learning how to make
maple syrup and maple sugar. Everybody arrived and we got our
name tags. Our guides name was Tony. She told us that
if we want to make maple syrup we should go to a sugar maple tree and
drill a hole, in the months of February and March. Sap comes out
of the tree. The sap looks like water. She used me to show
how much of the sap is suga and it was only to the tip of my boot which
is about 2%. We got to taste the sap from the tree. We then
went to a place where there was fire and there was a story about how
the Indians discovered the Maple Syrup and sugar.
"Once there was a indian man who was very tired and he tried to find
some food, but he got lost and he found his way back home. He put
his ax in a tree and he went to bed. His wife woke up the next
morning and it was so cold outside that she couldnt go get water from
the river and she saw a tree with water at the bottom of it where the
indian man put his axe in the tree. She tasted it and thought it
was water. She brought the sap into the house and put corn and
squash and beans and cooked it. When her husband woke up, he had
a taste of it and said 'What did you do to the stew?' and she said ' I
did nothing to the stew', he said 'it tastes like something I never
tasted before. Come over here and taste it!". She came and
tasted it and smiled, 'It's sweet water!" She said and that is how they
discovered about the sap."
We then went to another fire place
and there was a yoke, not an egg yolk, it was like a bull would carry.
(mommy here - this place showed how the colonials made maple syrup).
Some of the children carried it. Some thought was heavy and some
thought they were strong. There was a boy named Sam who thought
he could carry it for an hour.
We went to another place that
showed us how we make maple syrups. There are different kinds of
syrup. We tasted 2 different syrups, the first one was a fake
syrup and the second was the real maple syrup. It takes 40
gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup.
We then went to a gift shop and we saw books and maple syrup and maple candy. The maple candy was very yummy!
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• 2006-Mar-12 - Maple Sugar
Not many days ago I found a great site about it and posted a thread about it in my favourite web site. It had loads of pictures.
I am glad you had such a fun time.
I first read about it in Little House In The Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Edited by MyThreeDaughters on 2006-Mar-12 at 12:32