Monday trivia - corrected

Indian Tribe

Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla

one of the tribres of the Iroquois nation??

Re: Monday trivia - corrected

Dale Stansbery

A: Tribe=?

B: 3 to 4 gallons per tap, 2 or 3 taps per very large trees, could be as much as twelve gallons, though it's rare to get that good of flow. I'm basing that on personal experience with conventional taps and buckets. Modern pumping systems may produce more.

C: States=?

D: 35 to 50 gallons of sap per 1 gallon of syrup, (9 to 12 quarts of sap to 1 quart of syrup). Sap sugar % is rather variable.

E: Needs to be 100% Maple syrup to be labeled Maple (I think).

F: Commercial syrup contains 0% unless labeled Maple.

I always get odd looks at local pancake dinners when I carry in my own syrup, But once you try the real stuff, it's hard to enjoy the fake stuff.

Re: Monday trivia - corrected

Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla

States-New York-Vermont-?-?

Tribe

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

Was it the same tribe associated with Thanksgiving?

Tom

Yep!  I have to give credit

Gary Smyth

because my source said "Algonquin". The problem is that there is no one Algonquin tribe. Algonquin is a group of tribes that speak with a culture and language that is related. The following are included:Long Island Algonquians are generally Mohegan Indians. The New York Algonquians are generally Mahicans and Munsee Delawares. New England Algonquians include the Wampanoag in Massachusetts and the Mohegans in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Maine Algonquians are the Wabanaki tribes. Mid-Atlantic Algonquians include the Lenni Lenape in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the Nanticokes in Delaware and Maryland. Virginia Algonquians are generally Powhatan, and Carolina Algonquians are generally Lumbee (Croatan). The Ohio Valley Algonquian Tribes are poorly known because most of them were destroyed by smallpox epidemics and Iroquois attacks, but the Shawnee survived and are probably representative. Many of the above were conquered or absorbed into the First Nations, of which the Iroquois was an important member.

Correct NY,VT.  Two remaining.

Yes,  Please see Ken's answer above..

Dale got most of the rest.  States left.

Re: Monday answers

Gary Smyth

Congrats and gold stars to Ken, Dale, Tom. All info from sources on the web.

The Algonquin tribes reportedly showed early settlers how to tap trees. Read earlier replys/answers for more

When running well, a tree can produce 3 to four gallons per day of watery sap. Maples are usually tapped beginning between 30 and 40 years of age. Each tree can support between one and three taps, depending on its trunk diameter. The average maple tree will produce between 35 to 50 quarts (9.2 to 13 US gal) of sap per season, up to 12 quarts (3.2 US gal) per day. This is roughly equal to 7 percent of its total sap. Seasons last for four to eight weeks, depending on the weather. A tree can be tapped for approximately 100 years.

Vermont, Wisconsin, New York, West Virginia (Rhode Island is the Red Maple, which can be tapped, but the taste is different).

The ratio is it typically takes 25-45 quarts of sap boiled down to make in quart of American Maple Syrup. True maple syrup is thinner than the honey-like viscosity of grocery store commercial syrups. In early times syrup was obtained from the sap by either repeatedly dropping hot stones into a �bucket� and boiling off the water, or by letting the sap sit and when ice formed on top, breaking off the ice and discarding it.

In the U.S. Maple Syrup is almost all Maple syrup. A small amount of salt may be added making it 99+ -100%. In Canada the percentage of maple syrup is 66% for it to be labeled Maple Syrup.

Read the label. In the U.S. nearly all the syrup is corn syrup. �Hungry Jack� (as but one example) contains less than 2% of ARTIFICIAL maple flavor. Many similar commercial syrups also contain 0% maple syrup. The result is that true maple syrup is a strange taste to the palate and many people now of middle age have never tasted real maple syrup.