[Sca-cooks] Tree Saps: Was New World Food

[snow flake]

I seem to recall reading about some drink in the Germanic area or something that used birch sap/syrup.  Definately got my curiousity going now.  :c)
 
Eira
 
> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:29:12 -0700> To: alysk at ix.netcom.com; sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org> From: crimlaw at jeffnet.org> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Tree Saps: Was New World Food> > I can't answer the question directly but I have been aware of birch > syrup. Since Scandinavia is full of birch trees looking in Northern > sources for references to tapping birch trees seems appropriate.> > Simon Sinneghe> Briaroak, Summits, An Tir> > > At 09:00 AM 4/26/2008, you wrote:> >The comment was made regarding maple syrup as New World:> >> > >maple syrup perhaps... but a lot of different trees have sap that i> > >find hard to believe no one would have tried to do something with.> >> >Well, consider how time-consuming the production of maple syrup is and the> >process that it takes to produce it. The tree has to be tapped at a> >specific time of year with specific weather fluctuations. The sap needs to> >be gathered and then laboriously boiled down. I don't recall how many> >gallons of sap it takes to make one gallon of syrup, but it's a large> >ratio.> >> >Now, let us ask ourselves... Have we ever seen depictions of tapping trees> >in medieval illustrations? Can we recall any mention of using a tree syrup> >for sweetener? Honey, yes. Sugar, yes. Are there any references to> >people doing this as a seasonal job? If using a tree sap for some type of> >syrup or sweetener had been done, would there not be some visual or written> >reference? Can anyone think of any such? That might be a confirmation> >more than extrapolating that if we do it now, it could have been done prior> >to 1600.> >> >Alys K.> >> >Elise Fleming> >alysk at ix.netcom.com> >http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/> >> >> >_______________________________________________> >Sca-cooks mailing list> >Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org> >http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org> > > > _______________________________________________> Sca-cooks mailing list> Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org
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