{"id":946,"date":"2017-02-27T19:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=946"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:54:20","slug":"stages-of-maple-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Stages Of Maple Sap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to\u00a0find out people think maple sap is yellow. I never really thought about it, but I happened to see &#8220;maple water&#8221; for sale at a market. Clear liquid in a clear glass bottle. The ingredients were 100% maple sap &#8230; so I knew it was clear before I&#8217;d even thought to wonder.\u00a0I&#8217;ve seen sap with a slightly yellow tint. We pull the taps as the tree leaves begin to bud, so it is possible the sap yellows more throughout the year.\u00a0But\u00a0maple sap is clear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-947\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122800-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122800.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122800-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it is boiled, the sap begins to caramelize. Caramelization is what gives maple syrup a golden brown color &#8211; darker syrup is formed from sap harvested later in the year. Lighter syrup is from sap harvested earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122855.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-948\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122855-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122855.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122855-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170225_122855-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the sap boils down, the color will get darker and the flavor will get sweeter and, well, maple-ier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170216_183322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-949\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170216_183322-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170216_183322.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170216_183322-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170216_183322-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to\u00a0find out people think maple sap is yellow. I never really thought about it, but I happened to see &#8220;maple water&#8221; for sale at a market. Clear liquid in a clear glass bottle. The ingredients were 100% maple sap &#8230; so I knew it was clear before I&#8217;d even thought to wonder.\u00a0I&#8217;ve &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[107,108,119],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maple-sugaring","tag-maple","tag-maple-sap","tag-maple-syrup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}