Have some friends coming over this weekend, and would like some suggestions on what to offer to eat.
Halfpint
What food do you serve when you have visitors at the sugar house?
Have some friends coming over this weekend, and would like some suggestions on what to offer to eat.
Halfpint
Wood fire hot dogs with maple mustard!
Andy's Own Maple
Andy Kinter (4th + generation maple producer)
Approx 790 taps on vacuum
3x10 nat. gas fired raised flue small bros.
600 gph Lapierre RO
Fine collection of used bulk tanks
Kubota MX5100 sap hauler
2 hives (that I don't spend enough time on)
A great family that works together to make syrup!
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Hot dogs cooked on the edge of the evaporator where the base stack goes are a favorite with syrup on them of course!
11x29 sugarhouse
2x8 airtight arch homemade with waterloo flue pan, welded syrup pan and parallel flow preheater hood
250gph cdl ro
1100+ taps for 2014, approx 1000 of them vac
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Hot dogs on the evaporator with beer. Yummy and easy. This year I'll be adding a big bowl of maple nuts.
Pete Nightingale
Lisbon, NH
3 Teenage sap haulers & Plenty of friends and family to restock the beer fridge
2012 1 tap and a pot
2013 10 taps, oil tank evap, 2 gallons of slightly too thin syrup
2014 48 taps improved oil tank evap 3.5 gallons, ouch??
2015 88 taps 78 5/16" and 10 3/16" nat vac 40"x 48" Homemade Arch 13.25 Gallons
2016 100 taps 65 on 3/16 & 35 buckets 17 gallons + unknown amount of maple / Jack Daniels testers
how long would a foil wrapped potato take to bake in the firebox? haha. If that fails, how about some MRE's.
More taps than the year before. Bigger shack than the year before. Leader Patriot 2x6 w/hood. 3-post Dolly, but still too much sap and not enough wood or time.
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I serve Boiling Sodas.
Oh.....wait....FOOD. n/m
2024 - New Maine resident, 12X12 sugar shack under construction
2019 - New 12X12 boiling pavilion
2018 - New Mason 2X3 Hobby XL and homemade RO
If you want some WILD maple recipes, then check out Sugar Shack Au Pied de Cochon by Martin Picard (2012). One that we do is a cabbage & lentil stew boiled in sap with duck legs.
Jamie Jones
2017 - 120 taps, 68G syrup - automated pumping from collection to head tank
2016 - 118 taps (about half on 3/16"), 60G syrup
2015 - 115 taps, 58G syrup - new wireless blower switch and remote pump switch from tank to shack
2014 - 120 taps, 53G syrup - hobby vac
2013 - 120 taps, 40G syrup - Sunrise Metal 2x6, 12x14 sugarhouse
2012 - 44 taps, 6G syrup -gravity tube, 4 steam pans on block arch, plastic greenhouse shack - (I'm hooked!)
While Hotdogs are great, Traditional things might be homemade donuts that you could dip into hot syrup. Dill Pickles as a contrast to the sweet. And of course Hotdogs boiled in sap (NOT IN EVAPORATOR) at least not in mine. Also Eggs boiled in sap. Again not in your evaporator. I use a turkey cooker on low and a sauce pan. Eggs and hotdogs are the same old thing, but boiled in sap will be new. It does effect the flavor in a good way.
This is what Grandma used to do.
Ben
It all depends on You and how much You want to fuss. We have cooked sausage in maple syrup and they end up with a maple taffy coating and of course scrambled eggs and pancakes with maple syrup. We also have Dutch Ovens - We use the legless ones like a slow cooker and make up anything you do in a slow cooker with the lid on tight - cook all day on a heat source and you have dinner - one example polish sausage, potatoes and carrots. The person watching the evaporator can't do the cooking too. lol ---Mike---
Mike
2x5 F.O. Tank Arch/Wood Fired
2x5 Mark/Josh Custom Pans
12 x 14 Sugar Shack
55 Sure Taps - 100 Unsure Taps
Sign in a local tavern says : Beer has food value , but food has no beer value LOLOriginally Posted by eustis22
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