How To Make Birch Syrup.
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2013
- How to make Birch Syrup. I have made Maple and Box elder syrup but this video shows you how to make Birch Syrup from the collected sap. This was an interesting project, the sugar in the Birch is not the same as in the Maple tree family. This sugar can be used by diabetics. Birch is Fructose while the Maple family is all Sucrose. This makes the process in rendering the sap into syrup a bit different as this video shows. The end product? you'll have to watch to find out. Thank You.
This is perfect for me I have tons of maple birch and elder trees in my forest thanks for showing me now I can make syrup thank you joe
Thanks Joe for the video! This is something I want to try also. I have lots of birch trees where I live. I live on the 45th parallel which apparently is the best place to live where you find birch trees. Thanks again!
Thanks for the video, I was thinking about trying to tap the birch trees
Thanks for sharing
Good info Joe, thanks for sharing this and Take Care my friend :-))
Good to know! Yes I do some channel cruising when I TAKE a day off..( I am subscribed to you you know? lol)thanks for this video! I may try this next year as I have birch trees at my disposal also!
I made But rch sap for the first and only time 2 winters ago.Boy what a job.But it came out tasting cherry flavor.And on root vegetables.It was scrumptious! Nice video.
Birches are just starting to drip here in mid-Alberta. The higher temps for the last few days really made a difference. Still looking for an accessible spot for birches though. Thanks for the video, great stuff :)
Taste really good.
Thank you.
When are you heading to the Tent? Love those videos, maybe there is too much snow there yet!!!! We haven't been up to the UP in Mich yet - maybe this weather will melt the snow soon. All the Syrup you are making will be great on pancakes!!!! :D
HI Joe, hope all is well with you and your family. Haven't commented for a long time, but think of you often. I wonder how the natives boiled down their birch sap without bowls or did they carve out big ones from wood? Take care, and thanks for the video!
Nice video
I wonder if you could make a great birch tea from the "soot" you collected.
I am not fond of birch syrup. Never really adjusted to the taste differences from other syrups. Now Chaga... oh yes. ( ahem :-P )
Another interesting video Joe. Thanks for posting.
I make my birch syrup using the same method I use for Sun Tea...it just takes longer. I put it in ventilated clear glass 5 gallon water jugs and let the watter slowly evaporte..It is a lot easier on me because I don;t have to sit and watch the pot boil and it cannot burn
I know it was used a whole lot by Amerindians and Scandinavians for patching boats. It was mixed with fir, spruce or pine sap. That I wanna try someday!
You may be thinking of Birch Oil, which is a tar like substance made from birch bark.
I want to try this too. I have tapped birch tree in the past but drinked the juice directy. Now I want to concentrate the Sugars. But I want too boil it under vacuum which lowers the boiling point of water and prevent caramelization or worse carbonization. Maybe I could cristalize the Sugars. I think it is less sweat because it contains glucose instead of fructose.
its xylose a 5 carbon chain sugar. It does not involve insulin in its ingestion.
It may not be as sweet or as thick..because you have been watering it down with more sap while it is evaporting..maybe if you gathered all the sap and held it until you have enough to do it in one bath..the end result would be more consistent?
Syrup has to be processed within 24 hours or it will begin to ferment ruining it.
@@dynajenenterprises freeze it
I see that you got half a jar for 4-5 days of simmering but just how much sap did you use to get the end result?
+Jennifer Smith Jennifer I have lots of videos about this and I do many different types and in those videos I explain exactly the ratio of sap to syrup. Thank you. Joe
I wonder if you added honey if it would 1, thicken it and 2, sweeten it and still blend real nice. Might be good
almost looks like that birch oil you made thanks joe
What kind of birth. I will try this with Yellow birch if I can find enough or them together in Nova Scotia.
is it ever going to stop snowing there?
I wonder if this could be done in a crockpot set on Low or Medium with the lid off? Every time I think my Spring is too full to add another project, you put out a syrup video and I want to go tapping my trees. :D ~ Michelle
My crock pot burned it, that was my first bad batch.
was really hoping that you would have said more of this is what it taste like. I've never had birch syrup but from everything i've read people tend to say it has a wintergreen taste to it
tappakeggaday1 Hmmm I wouldn't say wintergreen but I can see why they would maybe say that, I guess that's as good a description as any. I would say its...... wow, I guess the reason I didn't say how it tasted is because I still cant describe it. I am going to go taste some right now and then try to explain.....ok I am back. It tastes like a syrup but does not have a deep flavor, its lighter than that with a slight bitter after taste that you taste in the back middle of your tongue. In my mind before I just tried it again (its been months) I was thinking it has a slight metallic taste but its not that, its just a tiny bit bitter. If you lived close I would let you try some. Thank you. Joe
I appreciate that, living here in north west florida I really don't have access to maple or birch trees, plenty of pecan trees around and have wondered if you could get the same type of sap from them lol. Tupelo honey is one of the big things here but not really my favorite, when I go to actually buy honey I will make a 20 mile trip to this one guy I know who raises bees and I love the wild flower honey he sells. It actually has a natural spiciness to it that is great in tea. Basically I forage the wild blackberries and blueberries that are close to me but would love to live more in the north to go after all those morel mushroom and chantrels I have watched so many videos on and also the oyster mushrooms.. never tried any of them and they only sell the button mushrooms here where I live..I digress though, when I watch videos like this my first thought it boy these guys got it made. Most have lakes or trees nearby,have plenty of access to natural resources and look like they really eat well when they cook it up out on an open fire.My daughter watches these videos with me and she all the time goes "dad.. why can't we do this?" lol. Take care.. Ed
The inner bark of the Yellow Birch has a compound in it that tastes like wintergreen. I suppose if you make birch syrup from that species, you could get a bit of that taste in there.
Have you cooked any down to sugar like you did with Maple?
I have cooked Betula Papyifera sap using Nesco roasters (this proved to be suboptimal because Nesco pans cook on the sides as well as the bottom). We steamed about 50 gallons of sap and it netted us just over 4 pints of syrup. There is some loss due to filtering (we triple filtered) and sampling/testing. We bottled at 60 Brix and the syrup is "otherworldly tasting". I am assembling a reverse osmosis system to run our Birch sap through (not once but twice) in order to get a more reasonable concentrate to process. Three Nesco roasters could not keep up with 20 taps in our Paper Birch trees (our Maple season was disappointing after last year ;-). We finished the sap indoors (if the syrup hydrometer can be floated from sap in the Nesco - we bring it in). We carefully cook it on Low/Warm and ensure that the temperature does not EVER get above 90 degrees Centigrade as you DO NOT want scorching. You will be absolutely amazed at the amount of "sugar sands" that cook onto the bottom of your finishing pot.
My wife is Russian they drink it like a juice its really nice.
Patrick Maginnis yeah I’m thinking about doing it with a river birch in my woods
I just had some birch beer. it tasted alot like rootbeer.
Have you thought of planting maple or box elder trees up at the tent? You only need a few trees to suit your needs so building a microclimate near the tent to grow a small grove of maples would be possible. Humans have been introducing nonnative species for centuries!
I'd label that so you don't put birch oil on your pancakes by mistake when not fully awake. That would suck. I say that cuz it is sounds like something that I would do. :)
i had a sugar camp,, you can freeze off water,, sugars won't freeze we could pull the ice off in the morning.
+mayamachine I have done that many times when it gets cold enough. It helps greatly in the boil down time. Thank you. Joe
White birch?
look at Heith Gagnon ... you should see how much he has in Michigan
Goodmorning, can I have the recipe?
1 - Collect birch water from tree ( Tap the tree - There are a bunch of videos showing how on RUclips - ruclips.net/video/JpFVbzWK5C0/видео.html )
2 - simmer the water until a good consistency ( Do not boil or a bunt taste )
3 - eat
At least that is what I understood with the video . :)
i wonder what that "dust" is?
sugar sands is my odds on bet
condensed minerals.
try a crock pot...that should evaporate with out the maintenance
MMM. Birch syrup glazed ham...
bro you don't boil it to 100C but make it hot till 75C the taste is different that way
WTF......so is it like molasses flavor? What?
It's no different for diabetics than any other sugar. The only sugar in human blood is glucose. It doesn't matter if you eat sucrose, fructose, starch, or any other carb it all turns to glucose before in enters your blood. So, if you are a diabetic, you have to watch all your carbs. Fructose is no better than sucrose.
Im am not diabetic BUT I could give you 50 links saying that Birch Syrup is better for a diabetic than other sugarsl. Some even call it a sugar substitute for diabetics. Please do some research before making a wide blanket statement. You may be right but I do not think all the others are wrong, so you tell me?
All the others are wrong. I am a doctor.
hyzercreek That makes you the absolute expert then! So, maybe you could tell us how Pfizer recommends treating diabetics. Or perhaps you could enlighten us as to how life itself would be impossible without chemicals per Monsanto. How's that ObamaCare working out for you?
You are an idiot. I just told you, all sugar turns to glucose in the blood, and high glucose levels are the definition of diabetes. If you continue to argue with me, you only reveal more and more to the world that you are a fool. Birch syrup is not low in sugar. It's sugar, idiot.
hyzercreek Oh yes, you most assuredly ARE a doctor. Arrogant and aggressive all in one worthless package. So, how is that ObamaCare working out for you then, Doc?
It almost looks like liquid coal.
No connective concept 9
Fructose is not healthy
It is in fruits where they are found naturally including the fiber