Bloomfield Hills – On a chilly morning, when you are stuck at home, a great way to warm yourself up is to indulge in a stack of fluffy pancakes drenched in maple syrup. Now you probably made the pancakes, but have you ever wondered how they make the maple syrup? To get one gallon of maple syrup it requires 40 buckets of sap; that is an extremely small yield. Real maple syrup is not as thick as the stuff made with high fructose corn syrup, but it is still sticky, and will drip more slowly than water. For more information on how they make maple syrup, contact the E.L. Johnson Nature center either online or by phone at 248-433-0885.