If he wants pancakes isn’t he going about it all wrong. I am not a food expert but I thought pancakes were produced from flour batter which supposedly comes from wheat or other grains, with some butter and eggs mixed in? Can you really get pancakes from trees?
I think he got part of that kind of switched around: it’s more likely for the tree to grow a fraction of an inch in diameter and extending each little limb a few inches.
My grandparents had a subsistence farm in Ohio from 1915-1985. They tapped maple trees for syrup and sugar. There was very little they couldn’t raise or grow and during the depression they traded for the few things they couldn’t.
Living in Mexico, I’ve discovered a great substitute for real maple syrup. It’s called “jarabe de agave”, and it’s made from the nectar of the agave plant.
Lucy Rudy about 1 year ago
Apparently it doesn’t hurt the trees or they wouldn’t still be around.
Gizmo Cat about 1 year ago
Maple tree?
Doug K about 1 year ago
Peter wants to tap into some of that tree’s stored nutrient strength.
Enter.Name.Here about 1 year ago
No. He wants maple syrup FOR his pancakes. Unless he LIKES sawdust pancakes.
Ahuehuete about 1 year ago
Don’t most people use the fake syrup? My brother even says that he likes the fake stuff more than the real thing (yeah, he’s crazy).
dcdete. about 1 year ago
If he wants pancakes isn’t he going about it all wrong. I am not a food expert but I thought pancakes were produced from flour batter which supposedly comes from wheat or other grains, with some butter and eggs mixed in? Can you really get pancakes from trees?
yip yip yip about 1 year ago
I believe the Time Machine took us to the wrong part of the year in BC. Yip yip yip yip yip
sandpiper about 1 year ago
From the sublime to the practical.
Gent about 1 year ago
How do you count the number of trees in a forest?
You begin with one, two, tree… Hee hee hee!
littlejohn Premium Member about 1 year ago
I think that they are barking up the wrong time of the year. But then they are a couple of saps, aren’t they?
Doug K about 1 year ago
I think he got part of that kind of switched around: it’s more likely for the tree to grow a fraction of an inch in diameter and extending each little limb a few inches.
Count Olaf Premium Member about 1 year ago
Huh? It’s an oak tree. Syrup from that? Ew, David.
ChemCzarina Premium Member about 1 year ago
Not to nitpick, but sugaring season is Feb/Mar. Sap’s already run its course for this year. (and yes, the leaf is wrong)
dflak about 1 year ago
When I look around my property I am amazed at some organisms that are 60 feet tall!
Zebrastripes about 1 year ago
I know a man who gathers, makes and sells Maple Syrup! About 25 miles from me it’s Maple Syrup country and a festival!
Yummy!
eric_harris_76 about 1 year ago
In a summer, the diameter grows a fraction of an inch. Growth rings, remember?
And in that time, the limbs (at the twig end) grow much more than a fraction of an inch.
Disclaimer: I Am Not A Botanist.
Doug Taylor Premium Member about 1 year ago
I live in the second largest country and largest supplier of maple syrup in the world and we proudly put it on our flag!
https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/canada-country-food-pancakes-maple-syrup-flag-national_2125385.htm
sonnygreen about 1 year ago
Phony Maple Syrup has the sugar content we crave to jump start us in the morning.
ladykat about 1 year ago
I prefer real maple syrup.
Moore 1 about 1 year ago
Bit late to tap for syrup now.
boydjb47 about 1 year ago
My grandparents had a subsistence farm in Ohio from 1915-1985. They tapped maple trees for syrup and sugar. There was very little they couldn’t raise or grow and during the depression they traded for the few things they couldn’t.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Well, as long as he isn’t cutting down the amazing tree to make a gazebo or grill up some ribs I’m thinking it’s not a bad arrangement.
rshive about 1 year ago
Roses are red/ Violets are purple./ Sugar is sweet/ And so’s maple surple. — from Roger Miller.
klapre about 1 year ago
A little off-season here for the US, aren’t we? Do they have maple trees in the Southern Hemisphere?
Cerabooge about 1 year ago
And when the tree’s tapped out, he’ll chop it down for firewood to turn the sap into syrup.
WCraft Premium Member about 1 year ago
The following cartoon has been banned by the insecure crowd for stereotyping cavemen as syrup makers
Webby_dog about 1 year ago
You can tell when Kids are eating REAL syrup….because when you try to look at them all you see us a BLUR….
blakerl about 1 year ago
Pancakes with maple syrup, Mm-mm. OH! now I’m hungry.
Teto85 Premium Member about 1 year ago
100 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.
amxchester about 1 year ago
Pancakes with Blackberry syrup today, mmmmm!
zeexenon about 1 year ago
’Missed sequestered carbon and spewed oxygen.
You know how expensive real pancake syrup is?
PaintTheDust about 1 year ago
What a sap.
crazeekatlady about 1 year ago
Oak syrup???
Moonkey Premium Member about 1 year ago
I have friends who put sugar-free syrup on their pancakes. I have absolutely no idea what is in the syrup bottle and kind of don’t want to.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 1 year ago
Too much heat not enough water.
" Kat" Premium Member about 1 year ago
I cannot leave the page without recommending a poem by Joyce Kilmer: “Trees”.
MarshaOstroff about 1 year ago
Living in Mexico, I’ve discovered a great substitute for real maple syrup. It’s called “jarabe de agave”, and it’s made from the nectar of the agave plant.
falcon_370f about 1 year ago
The leaf looks like oak, not maple.