{"id":531,"date":"2017-04-02T16:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T11:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2020-02-23T02:57:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T21:57:46","slug":"stronger-aroma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Stronger Aroma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm again. &nbsp;About 40 overnight. &nbsp;Started out sunny. &nbsp;Up to 60. &nbsp;Clouds rolled in around 11:00 AM and the temperature dropped to mid-50s.<\/p>\n<p>Into the woods at 8:00 AM. &nbsp;Back to the farmhouse by 3:15 PM. &nbsp;Could have been back sooner but worked on getting a 4th batch of syrup off the evaporator. &nbsp; &nbsp;It was close enough that we didn&#8217;t want to leave it and risk it getting to density as it simmered. &nbsp;That happened last year and we ruined a batch when it crystallized. &nbsp;Had too slow down firing so as not to burn it. &nbsp;We were able to get a small batch off.<\/p>\n<p>This syrup has a stronger aroma and is darker in color. &nbsp;That&#8217;s normal. &nbsp;And some people like the darker syrup or use it for cooking. &nbsp;The delicate maple flavor will get overwhelmed in cooking with other ingredients. Up to now our syrup was a nice medium amber. &nbsp;The R\/O helps make lighter grades because we can process the sap quicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm again. &nbsp;About 40 overnight. &nbsp;Started out sunny. &nbsp;Up to 60. &nbsp;Clouds rolled in around 11:00 AM and the temperature dropped to mid-50s. Into the woods at 8:00 AM. &nbsp;Back to the farmhouse by 3:15 PM. &nbsp;Could have been back sooner but worked on getting a 4th batch of syrup off the evaporator. &nbsp; &nbsp;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-season-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}