Maple sap has 2-3% (this can vary) sugar and to be called Maple Syrup you need 66-67% sugar. I was always told it takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. However, I find the number is more in the range of 30-40 gallons of sap for 1 gallon of syrup.
For 1 pint 4-5 gallons of sap should get you there.
Remember if you are planning to do this on the kitchen stove all the water will go into the house. My mom did this one year, she must have been 85 + years old at that time. I came home one weekend and my glasses steamed up as I entered the house. She was happily boiling away....the kitchen windows had about 1/4" of frost on the inside which was melting onto the sill, making a mess. I am thinking - you could never have this good a time in a nursing home- she made it to 92 and died carrying feed to the calves.
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