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Produce => Recipes => Topic started by: ACE on March 21, 2012, 18:51:51

Title: birch sap
Post by: ACE on March 21, 2012, 18:51:51

I have been try my hand at tapping a few of my birch trees to collect the sap. I have got about a pint of the stuff. According to the information I have read it does not keep long, so I had some on some waffles tonight. Lovely stuff, but do you think I can freeze it as it did not take long to collect a pint and we will not use it fast enough.

Title: Re: birch sap
Post by: goodlife on March 21, 2012, 18:58:53

Yes you can freeze it or you can boil it into almost syryp stage..but it takes time and efford.

Title: Re: birch sap
Post by: winecap on March 21, 2012, 20:49:57

I know I could look it up, but would you care to share how you go about doing this?

Title: Re: birch sap
Post by: goodlife on March 21, 2012, 21:53:35

Boil, boil, boil until the water content is reduced to the stage you want it to be. Only negative point with it is that you loose the 'goodness' of the sap as well and the flavour is totally different too.

Title: Re: birch sap
Post by: winecap on March 21, 2012, 22:16:18

Thanks Goodlife, but what I actually meant was how to go about tapping the sap from your birch tree.

Title: Re: birch sap
Post by: Poppy Mole on March 21, 2012, 22:24:52

Do I remember a wine recipe using birch tree sap?

Title: Re: birch sap
Post by: gaz2000 on March 21, 2012, 23:04:21

Quote from: winecap on March 21, 2012, 22:16:18

Thanks Goodlife, but what I actually meant was how to go about tapping the sap from your birch tree.

just a handy drill and a bottle i believe

Title: Re: birch sap
Post by: ACE on March 22, 2012, 06:20:32

This is the time of year to do it. just drill a hole in the bark, a tight fitting piece of plastic tube into a bottle and collect the sap. Once the tree starts showing signs of leaf it is too late to collect as the sap starts going bitter. Plug the hole when you have finished.