Sugar Shack Food
What is your Sugar Shack eats.Do you have meals in the shack? We do!! Wife will make pancakes or french toast and bring it to the shack. We have a spear in the shack for brats and hotdogs. We hard boil eggs in the finish pan. how about you, whats your go to food?
I have a little 4 burner stove from an old camper in my shack. We cook all sorts of stuff during the season and try to use the sap or syrup when doing so. Like maple glazed chicken and beans cooked in sap. We also brew our french press coffee using sap, or a mug with sap from the middle pan and drop in a few tea bags.
6th season solo sugar maker in a young sugar bush of mostly red maples
320 taps
2x6 self built arch, Flat pans w/ dividers
New 12x16 sugar house
CDL hobby 250 RO
Toaster oven in shack for cinnamon french toast sticks, hotdogs boiled in the pan.
2024 - New Maine resident, 12X12 sugar shack under construction
2019 - New 12X12 boiling pavilion
2018 - New Mason 2X3 Hobby XL and homemade RO
We did a roast chicken under the grates awhile back. Some times potluck stuff if a small crowd is expected. French press coffee with sap instead of water seems popular.
How do you afford the eggs to boil?
2004 - 2012 2x3 flat pan 25 to 60 taps
2012 2x3 new divided pan w/draw off 55 taps
2018 - didn't boil surgery - bought new evaporator
2019 new SML 2x4 raised flue high output evap. 65 taps
made 17 gal. syrup
2020 - only put out 53 taps - made 16.25 ga.l syrup
2021 - Didn't work out
2022 - 25 taps on bags / 8 taps on 3/16's line - late start
Got 12 hens. Get 10 eggs a day. Got 9 dozen in the fridge now. come on down , I'll give ya a couple dozen.
Thanks for the offer. I get mine from my niece. They have a farm and have the animals I use to have. Nothing is better than a fresh egg.
2004 - 2012 2x3 flat pan 25 to 60 taps
2012 2x3 new divided pan w/draw off 55 taps
2018 - didn't boil surgery - bought new evaporator
2019 new SML 2x4 raised flue high output evap. 65 taps
made 17 gal. syrup
2020 - only put out 53 taps - made 16.25 ga.l syrup
2021 - Didn't work out
2022 - 25 taps on bags / 8 taps on 3/16's line - late start
Yep...hot dogs or brats boiled in the pan and buns warmed by the steam. All kinds of snacks with friends and family. Sugar on snow for dessert. And my favorite...50/50 shots of warm syrup from the pan with Fireball whiskey.
16x24 Timber Frame Sugar House
Mason 2x4 Evaporator
90 trees on buckets
Monkey bread dipped in hot syrup.
Ken & Sherry
Williston, VT
16x34 Sugarhouse
1,500 taps on high vacuum, Electric Releaser & CDL Sap Lifter
Wood-Fired Leader 30"x10' Vortex Arch & Max Raised Flue with Rev Syrup Pan & CDL1200 RO
https://www.facebook.com/pumpkinhillmaple/
Wash the monkey bread down with the syrup and whiskey. Seriously, all of the ideas sound good.Boiling the meat in the syrup sounds a little strange but if you guys do it, must be it doesn't contaminate the syrup. I can see where it would add maple flavor to the brats and dogs
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