Eva Informative Speech

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  1. february.
  2. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear that word?
  3. Is it valentine's day?
  4. Is it the Super bowl?
  5. Is it a skiing season?
  6. Is it a crackling fire on a snowy night?
  7. Cemetery offers a lot of fun,
  8. but for me, when I hear the word february,
  9. I think of making maple syrup.
  10. For the past 12 years.
  11. I have made maple syrup with my grandparents
  12. every year at their home in Pennsylvania.
  13. Do you enjoy the sweet taste of maple syrup
  14. that you pour into your pancakes and waffles?
  15. And have you ever wondered where the sweet gift of nature comes from?
  16. The process is not as difficult as you might think.
  17. Today I'm going to teach you the three main steps of making pure maple syrup,
  18. preparing the trees,
  19. gathering the south
  20. and boiling the sap down to make maple syrup.
  21. The first step of the process is preparing the trees.
  22. The key to the step is knowing the right time to begin
  23. because the step will not start to flow until the weather is just right
  24. for the softer flow.
  25. The temperatures must be below freezing at night
  26. and above freezing in the day.
  27. Where my family makes syrup In southwestern pennsylvania.
  28. Mental late february is the perfect time.
  29. Once the temperatures cooperate,
  30. it's time to prepare your sugar maple trees.
  31. This is called tapping the tree
  32. According to tap my tree, a tree must be at least 12" in diameter in order to tap it,
  33. you need a drill with a 7/16 inch drill bit,
  34. drill a hole
  35. 1 to 1.5 inches into the tree
  36. at an upward angle, So gravity will help the sap to flow out.
  37. Use a hammer to put the tap into the hole. You have drilled
  38. these cats can also be called spouts or spirals.
  39. After you have the tap in place,
  40. hang a bucket
  41. over the tap so that the sap will flow from this pile
  42. into the
  43. bucket.
  44. Place a lid on the bucket
  45. to avoid getting any extra rain or snow in your bucket.
  46. You repeat this process for as many trees as you would like to tap
  47. My family usually taps 25 trees
  48. now that you have prepared the trees,
  49. it is time for the second step,
  50. gathering the sugar water.
  51. How quickly your buckets will fill up with sap will depend upon the temperature.
  52. You will need to empty your pockets once or twice a day,
  53. depending on how well the stuff is flowing
  54. for this. After you've collected into larger buckets,
  55. so that you can put the collecting buckets back onto
  56. the trees in order to not lose any step,
  57. it takes a lot of sap to make maple syrup.
  58. You'll probably be surprised to learn that it takes 40
  59. gallons of sap just to make one gallon of syrup.
  60. After you have collected the sap, you're ready to complete the third step
  61. boiling the sap To make maple syrup,
  62. Pour the sap into 20 quart pots
  63. and placed pots on the burners of a gas stove.
  64. This process needs to be completed outside because
  65. of the lots of steam that it creates,
  66. you will need to boil the sap on the stiff
  67. in order to evaporate the water off of it.
  68. According to the northwest Pennsylvania Maple Association.
  69. The sap is 98% water and 2% sugar and other minerals and nutrients.
  70. You need to boil it until it is only 33% water and 67% sugar.
  71. As it boils the water from the sap
  72. would turn to steam
  73. and the sap will become
  74. thicker and sweeter.
  75. You will need to watch it closely so it doesn't burn
  76. The syrup will be ready when the temperature
  77. reaches 7°F above the boiling temperature of water.
  78. The boiling process takes 12 hours while sap was originally.
  79. When you collected it, it looked just like water.
  80. It is now starting to look
  81. like the characteristic golden color and thickness of maple syrup.
  82. You can now pull your syrup through cheesecloth to filter
  83. it off any minerals that accumulated during the boiling process.
  84. You can pour your syrup into any sterilized jars or bottles that you like.
  85. In conclusion, making pure maple syrup is a fairly simple process
  86. that consists of three steps
  87. of preparing the trees, gathering the sap and boiling the sap
  88. so as february has arrived. Today,
  89. it brings with it. The joys of valentine's Day in the super bowl, Winter sports
  90. and cozy fires.
  91. Perhaps you think there's something new when you hear the word february
  92. as you pour maple syrup onto your pantries
  93. and drizzle it over your waffles and french toast.
  94. Perhaps you will think of the process
  95. that this
  96. gift of nature went through to make it to your plate.