How is making sugar/syrup from Maple (or birch, for that matter) sap different from making it from sorghum/sugar cane?

Info on how the two operations / mills (or process) would be different -- would be much appreciated.In case you are wondering, I am wanting to adapt a scale model of the Evans Sorghum Mill (cane sugar, as made in Tennessee) into a New England/Canadian Maritime Maple (and Birch) sugar operation for a Model Railroad project. I am wanting to build a museum-quality diorama where the process can be explained, though some liberties may be taken (exact details on the procedure need not be accurate -- just generally credible). What I need to know most of all, is how would the buildings-facilities be different?(the time period for the building could be from the mid-to-late Currier and Ives era to the 1940s homestead/ccc era).

Asked by Yellowdog 31 months ago Similar questions: making sugar syrup Maple birch matter sap sorghum cane Food & Drink.

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1 I know little of the details of either. I do understand that it takes 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of syrup. That means a lot of evaporation and clouds of steam.

The process is probably similar to get the final product, but I would think the maple version would be a lot more heat and larger evaporator pan.

I know little of the details of either. I do understand that it takes 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of syrup. That means a lot of evaporation and clouds of steam.

The process is probably similar to get the final product, but I would think the maple version would be a lot more heat and larger evaporator pan.

Poppet! Said: 2 You are always involved in the most interesting things! .

You are always involved in the most interesting things!

Poppet! Said: 3 I have been to a Maple syrup making place here in Michigan and the syrup was just made in a big plain room..a big metal tank thing was there, but the room was not steamy or anything. If you'd asked a few weeks ago I could have gone and got more info-the syrup season just ended here.

I have been to a Maple syrup making place here in Michigan and the syrup was just made in a big plain room..a big metal tank thing was there, but the room was not steamy or anything. If you'd asked a few weeks ago I could have gone and got more info-the syrup season just ended here.

Poppet! Said: 4 3s a charm! Wasn't early maple syrup produced outdoors, though?

Only the boiling of the sap is needed, no grinding like cane, and if I remember my history right I think most was done outdoors (where we go it's a modern, large scale production! ). Here's an evaporation pan for making the syrup:

3s a charm! Wasn't early maple syrup produced outdoors, though? Only the boiling of the sap is needed, no grinding like cane, and if I remember my history right I think most was done outdoors (where we go it's a modern, large scale production!).

Here's an evaporation pan for making the syrup:

5 Couldn't say. But I recently took a tour of a maple sugaring house. It was quite interesting; I didn't know that maple sugar used to be a major competitor to sugar made from sugar cane during the run-up to the Civil War.

Maple sugar was considered the more moral choice, since it wasn't made by slaves. But there were scaling and production problems (it takes a lot of time for maple trees to grow large enough to harvest the sap, and the time-window and weather requirements for production are quite narrow). So when sugar cane sugar pushed maple sugar off the market, some genius came up with maple syrup.

Couldn't say. But I recently took a tour of a maple sugaring house. It was quite interesting; I didn't know that maple sugar used to be a major competitor to sugar made from sugar cane during the run-up to the Civil War.

Maple sugar was considered the more moral choice, since it wasn't made by slaves. But there were scaling and production problems (it takes a lot of time for maple trees to grow large enough to harvest the sap, and the time-window and weather requirements for production are quite narrow). So when sugar cane sugar pushed maple sugar off the market, some genius came up with maple syrup.

" "Have a recipe that calls for maple sugar and all I have is maple syrup. Should I use the same amount syrup?

To those who answered my sorghum / maple / sugar mill question.

Have a recipe that calls for maple sugar and all I have is maple syrup. Should I use the same amount syrup?

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