A Visit to Roxbury Mountain Maple in Hobart, NY I’m a big fan of maple syrup, and have been for years (sorry, but no Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup for my home-made waffles or cottage cheese pancakes), so our visit to Roxbury Mountain Maple in Hobart, NY in the heart of the Catskill Mountains, this past weekend while we were in neighboring Roxbury for a family wedding was a real treat. Do you know where maple syrup comes from? No, not maple syrup trees, but close. Sap is gathered from sugar maple trees. The sap, I learned, is mostly water and so that must be boiled off to yield the syrup (the flyer from Roxbury Mountain Maple says 40 to 50 gallons of sap will yield a gallon of syrup). Current technology focuses on using reverse osmosis to remove a large percentage of the water and ultimately ... 05/17/2016