maple sap
Syrup's raw form
Maple sap is the watery fluid that flows through maple trees, harvested in late winter and early spring when freezing nights and warm days create pressure that pushes sap up through the trunk.
The sap itself is only slightly sweet—it takes roughly forty gallons of maple sap boiled down to produce one gallon of maple syrup.
- syrupThick sugar liquid
- sugaringCoating with sweetener
- sugar shackMaple syrup production building
- tappingRepeated light striking
- spilePlug or tap
bucket · sugarhouse · boiling · boiling down · evaporator · pancakes · Vermont · springtime · thaw · birch · sugar season · trees · sugar bush · steam · amber · harvest · drip · collection
- spring signsrain, thaw, melting, bloom, budding
- sweetenerssugar, honey, brown sugar, white sugar, sucrose
- Wild Foodswild berries, wild mushrooms, wild greens, wild honey, wild strawberries
- maple sugaringsugarhouse, sugar shack, sugarbush, sugar bush, evaporator
- energy sourcesoil, gas, coal, solar, wind
- raw materialsiron ore, copper ore, raw cotton, raw wool, crude oil
concentration/processing state
maple sapmaple syrup
Concentrated sap sweetener
maple sugar · maple candy · maple butter · maple cream · molasses