Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 25, 2015
September 24, 2015
September 26, 2015
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Frazz: Nothing says fall like maple syrup. Even though it's harvested in early spring. I guess because maple trees look their mapleiest in the fall more than they taste their mapleiest in the spring or because they only look maple-y now but taste maple-y any time of the year as long as you've got the time to boil the Caulfield: Nothing says "keep it simple" like Frazz. Miss Plainwell: Seriously? Caulfield: Not a bit.
@comicsssfan@StratmanronLast spring my son and I collected 17 gallons of sap from a single tap on a 13" dia. maple tree. We boiled it down to about 1.25 quarts of syrup.
Supplies cost us about $20. Not counting the <5 minutes a day (over 2 months) to collect the sap, we spent about 8-10 hours boiling and filtering the sap into syrup.
This spring we’re tapping 3 trees!