We finished bottling today.\u00a0\u00a0 17 quarts.\u00a0 When we total up the syrup for the season we get 51 gallons.\u00a0\u00a0 This batch of syrup was dark, grade B.\u00a0 Some people like it.\u00a0 And its good for cooking and baking.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
After bottling we went to work on the cleaning the nitre from the finishing pan.\u00a0 Its kind’a like ring around the collar with nitre on the pan.\u00a0 Its a ring of nitre about 1 \u00bd \u201c up around the pan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All the nitre is off.\u00a0 The pan is the cleanest its been in many years.\u00a0\u00a0 Nitre is not harmful to the quality of the syrup.\u00a0\u00a0 But it does cause a dull film on the stainless steel.\u00a0 And on the bottom of the pans a buildup of nitre can cause weird heat distribution. <\/p>\n
Into the woods by 9:00 AM to get the syrup on the finishing pan.\u00a0 Started bottling by 12:45 PM.\u00a0 Back to the house by 6:00 PM.\u00a0 While waiting for the syrup we cut up limb wood for the wood shed.\u00a0 It rained this afternoon.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
It looks like the R\/O will arrive on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 Our equipment dealer is going to bring it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
We have one more day of cleaning.\u00a0\u00a0 The season is not done until all the cleaning is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We finished bottling today.\u00a0\u00a0 17 quarts.\u00a0 When we total up the syrup for the season we get 51 gallons.\u00a0\u00a0 This batch of syrup was dark, grade B.\u00a0 Some people like it.\u00a0 And its good for cooking and baking.\u00a0 After bottling we went to work on the cleaning the nitre from the finishing pan.\u00a0 Its kind’a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-season-95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}