TREE JUICE.
Have you ever had a glass of maple sap as it's being boiled down into syrup? It's a profound experience, perhaps even life changing––like an earthy sweet tea. When I went back to the farm this week, the Smiths were boiling down their sap––follow their experience here!––and let me have a taste. Now I want it every day with everything.I feel there are a lot of possibilities with sap, and with trees: wines, beers, medicines, syrups. In fact, recently, a friend sent us some hickory syrup (made from the nuts, husks and bark of a hickory tree) and some crabapple jelly. They're wonderful. We've put them on bread and on biscuits and (hopefully soon) pancakes.Anyone have any other good tree/sap recipes? We're into it!- Jesse.