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sap that bled, boiled down ninety-nine percent, into edible amber patience
means A thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in water or by concentrating the juice of a plant, fruit, or tree.
from From medieval Latin 'siropus' or 'siruppus', which came from Arabic 'sharab' (or 'shurb'), meaning a drink or beverage — the same root that gives us 'sherbet' and 'sorbet'. Arabic medicine and confectionery passed sweet medicinal drinks westward, and the word arrived in English through Old French 'sirop'. So the trail runs from an Arabic word for 'something you drink' through the apothecaries of the Mediterranean to your breakfast table.
- sap ratio
- forty gallons of sap make one of syrup
- grading
- darker means later season, stronger flavor
- freeze cycle
- trees need cold nights and warm days to flow
- fake stuff
- most pancake syrup is colored corn syrup, no tree
- canada
- holds a strategic maple reserve, robbed in 2012
maple syrup — produced in canada, which supplies 71% of world's pure maple syrup
corn syrup — invented in 1866, became dominant sweetener in american processed foods
golden syrup — british product made from sugar cane, trademark of lyle's since 1885