Foraging from nature; Birch Syrup
We have been blessed on our property with a large amount of silver birch trees so this Spring time we intend to use some of them. Some will be used in making birch beer for my husband, which I'll write about later, and some will go into making birch syrup. In the coming years I might make birch wine as well for use in cooking but for now I've got more than enough other projects to work on and I really do not want to bite off more than I can chew. We've actually had birch syrup before but it is most definitely an acquired taste. It is not quite as sweet, and it is much darker than maple syrup is. Making birch syrup is much more labor intensive then maple syrup is. Maple syrup typically takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. Birch on the other hand takes 100 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of birch syrup. This means we will be cooking down our sap for quite a while. Our first step, will be within the next month, to walk our property to assess whic...