I flashed boiled a pint of NY syrup to see how it went. I got half a pint of rock candy in a few months. It really woke up the vanilla flavor or vanillin flavor. Good stuff hot on pancakes. Super thick and it was dark syrup originally. Tons of flavor.
I think one is by volume , and the other is by weight, but don’t ask me which is which.
These are everywhere in yards around here. One is not a hundred feet from my property. Seven or eight one foot round leaders coming up. It might be easier to tap the local residential block than travel anywhere. I'll ask around the hood tonight. Been pulling Grey Oyster mushrooms off a dying sugar maple two blocks away. These trees are all in the back fence line or damn near in the street out front. My neighborhood has no sidewalks from 3rd to 8th street. There is a few big 100+ year old sugar maples within a rocks throw of our yard. Stands of them occur in clusters along roadways and hedge rows of farms and ditches in this region. Avoiding any trees exposed to ferts, chemicals, salts and pesticides. No lawn trees on commercial properties for me. Next to some of them is the prime old trees along the drain paths, also not good imo. Anything out of the run-off area should be better quality as far as leaching chemicals are concerned.
How did it go?
I bottled 7 more pints last night. My pans are VERY sweet, and when I boil tomorrow, I should get another gallon or so of syrup. It does seem like the sap this year is a little less sweet than normal. I think I'm getting 50:1 instead of 40:1 this year.
