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Birch sap can be boiled down to make a sweet syrup.
It contains the sugars glucose and fructose, birch sap has only 1% syrup by weight.
It can be made into a delicious taffy like candy that tastes like molasses.
It can be used to make beer, wine or soft drinks.
Use one drop of Birch Essential Oil in a cup of hot water, to make this into a wonderful nourishing tea. Add 4 to 5 drops to a gallon of pure water, or distilled water will make it a delightful cool drink.
Birch Syrup can be used as a flavoring agent and a sweetener. It can also be used in sauces, salad dressings, marinades for meat and fish, candies, ice cream and baked goods.
It can be used wherever a sweetener like brown sugar might be used in cooking and baking. However, since it is mostly fructose sugar, it will not crystallize like regular sugar.
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