{"id":4941,"date":"2022-03-16T08:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2022-03-16T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:03:44","slug":"georgette-heyer-maple-syrup-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=4941","title":{"rendered":"Georgette Heyer, Maple Syrup and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One might accuse me of being a bird witted, ninnyhammer when it comes to waiting for a watched pot to boil, but it\u2019s a vexatious part of a havey cavey business. \u00a0I\u2019m talking maple syruping. I\u2019m talking finishing the sap after it\u2019s gotten the old rake down in the outdoor boiling pans and is just about syrup. This process alone can put one in the deuce of a pucker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While some may be junketing around the countryside enjoying rustication on a spring day, I must to the boiling pans. This often takes me into the suds.\u00a0 It\u2019s no flummery to boil down forty gallons of sap to just a whisker over a gallon of golden libation.\u00a0Today’s haul is NINETY gallons of sap to boil down. This sets me up to be Friday faced by day’s end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not by a long chalk is this the worst of the matter.  The sap then goes into the house for a final finish boil.  This is a bit of a whisky frisky. This is when the old rumgumption begins, because first nothing happens and nothing happens and nothing happens.  The sap sits in pots on the stove, and it\u2019s as much of a yawn as a proper jaw-me-dead to wait for the boil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then, suddenly it\u2019s the worst hobble ever, because one paper skull or pea goose turn away from the pot always occurs JUST when the boil happens.\u00a0 Then the sap goes all over the stove, the floor and every last frippery in sight. \u00a0Smoke alarms, burnt sugar, seething pots- it\u2019s a horrid collation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give us petticoats our due, it is a rare hubble bubble of a project even for a pink of the ton. And if the pot fell to the care of \u00a0a half sprung shuffler?\u00a0 Why, I\u2019ve seen the most odious little bounce let a boil go, and sopped up the mess myself, make no mistake.\u00a0 So, no matter the sure card that is at the stove, a bumble cloth of a boil over is bound to happen. Yes, even when you keep a focus bang up to the nines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My solution of late? Georgette Heyer and her books about the Regency period in England. With one of her witty tomes perched over the skimble skamble of the boiling pot, I\u2019m never in a quake nor falling into the dismals.\u00a0 Instead I laugh with a gurgle and keep the watched pot under perfect control. I\u2019m diverted with one eye on the pot and the other on my heroine\u2019s handling of every loose fish in London. So far it hasn\u2019t left me caper witted or flying up into the boughs. So far it’s resulted in some excellent syrup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One might accuse me of being a bird witted, ninnyhammer when it comes to waiting for a watched pot to boil, but it\u2019s a vexatious part of a havey cavey business. \u00a0I\u2019m talking maple syruping. I\u2019m talking finishing the sap after it\u2019s gotten the old rake down in the outdoor boiling pans and is just … Continue reading Georgette Heyer, Maple Syrup and Me<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}