Palm syrup

As palmhoney the thickened sweet sap of various palm species is called. Palm honey is produced, for example, from the sap ( bleeding sap ) of the date palm, the palm honey or coconut palm. When expelling the palm trees produce a sweet juice. To win this, the upper fronds are chipped and scraped off the top layer of the interface, to the palm juice ( "el guarapo " ) begins to flow. A palm tree yields about 15 liters every night over a period of about four to five months; during the day the collected juice is boiled in large cauldrons and concentrated to viscous syrup. The taste of this syrup is between maple syrup and sugar syrup. The massive withdrawal of nutrients requires several years break between harvests.