In honor of Jake’s birthday today, I made a maple cheesecake with graham cracker base, a recipe I found in one of our several maple cookbooks. It was a hit!

What a day we had yesterday, we made 525 gallons of syrup! We had to call it quits with 15,000 gallons of unprocessed sap left, we were just too exhausted to haul, concentrate, and boil another 250 gallons worth of syrup. Fortunately it froze overnight and the sap won’t run much today, giving us a breather to catchup since Wednesday/Thursday/Friday should bring in even more sap!

Dexter was supervising this morning’s sap drop off