Raw maple syrup?

[PomegranatePip]

In many raw recipes that I've seen (including quite a few from a book we got from the library... can't recall the name at the moment, but it's supposed to be raw cuisine), maple syrup is called for. Now, I remember going on field trips to the sugar bush when I was a kid, and seeing how maple syrup is made. You have to boil the heck out of the sap to get rid of the water and get it to thicken. So how on earth can it be raw?

Is there some product that's a "raw maple syrup"? Or are these recipes not 100% raw?

Also, if you substitute agave nectar, can you do it 1:1 or do you have to add more (or less)?

[Revvell]

Far as I know, it's not. I do 1:1 ~ or less...


I So how on earth can it be raw?

Is there some product that's a "raw maple syrup"? Or are these recipes not 100% raw?

Also, if you substitute agave nectar, can you do it 1:1 or do you have to add more (or less)?

[oceanee]

Maple Syrup cannot be raw...you're right , the sap is boiled down to make syrup.
Oceanee

[eachpeachpearplum]

Actually the IS a raw maple syrup. However not that you can buy.

There was a wonderful link way back when, about two years ago. A man did it as an expirement, successfully!

The process in involves freezing and defrosting over and over again. A very lengthy process if I remember correctly. So sorry I cannot provide the link but it should be somewhere in the archives.:o

EPPP

[sbaker]

i grew up in vermont so i still include maple in my stuff, it's one of those forgivables in my book:) It also doesnt spike my blood sugar like real sugar does. my favorite deserts are in raw food for real world, and they use a lot of it.

[spiralgirl]

Ditto, with what sbaker said. It isn't raw but in "Raw Food Real World" or maybe somewhere else I read that it is really good for you (there are a lot of vitamins and nutrients in it) so I use it too although I know it's not technically raw.

[kyrie]

Hello,

I remember a few years ago someone posted about buying organic truly raw maple syrup on this forum.

That means that is quite possibly commercially available. Not make your own

at home.

They also posted that it was very expensive.

Unfortunately the post was very quickly removed.

But I do remember it quite clearly.


I think you'll have to google it. If you do find it let me know: my email is

cameron.carla@gmail.com.

Good luck,

Carla.

[MysticTree]

maple syrup can be made by reverse osmosis but it is generally made by evaporating the water off so isn't raw. Trouble is the amount of sap needed to make the syrup is huge so I guess it's not practical in the home?????

Georgina

[PomegranatePip]

maple syrup can be made by reverse osmosis but it is generally made by evaporating the water off so isn't raw. Trouble is the amount of sap needed to make the syrup is huge so I guess it's not practical in the home?????

Georgina

I think the ratio is something like 40:1 (40 litres of sap = 1 litre of syrup). Unless you want to make it in your bathtub, I don't think it would be practical! :D

[MysticTree]

I think the ratio is something like 40:1 (40 litres of sap = 1 litre of syrup). Unless you want to make it in your bathtub, I don't think it would be practical! :D

I did look into getting a reverse osmosis machine for turning birch sap into birch syrup and gave up! The amount of birch sap needed to make syrup is even less favourable than for maple -- about 100:1 -- and the machine is not cheap! :(

Georgina