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Sorguhm syrup making

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Aowner

09-03-2006 14:03:52




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Any of you gents every been involved in making sorguhm syrup with a mill and kettle.




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buickanddeere

09-04-2006 20:05:16




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to Aowner, 09-03-2006 14:03:52  
So does this Sorguhm syrup taste anything like corn syrup? Never heard tell of the stuff. Then again we never see sorguhm around here. The boiling process does sound similar to making maple syrup.



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Stan in Oly, WA

09-04-2006 23:58:29




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to buickanddeere, 09-04-2006 20:05:16  
Hi B&D,

Sorghum syrup is slightly more pungent than corn syrup, but not nearly so much so as even the mildest grade of molasses. I"d describe the difference in taste between sorghum and corn syrup as similar to the amount of difference in taste between pancakes made with whole wheat flour and those made with buckwheat flour. There, that wasn"t very helpful, was it?

All the best, Stan



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jpuleo

09-03-2006 21:12:28




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to Aowner, 09-03-2006 14:03:52  
Come to the sorghum festival in Blairsville, GA this Oct.



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BigMarv1085

09-04-2006 03:26:56




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to jpuleo, 09-03-2006 21:12:28  
Hey jupuleo, I'm going to be in BlueRidge oct 15, where in Blairsville will they sorghum festival ?



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Charles (in GA)

09-03-2006 18:18:55




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to Aowner, 09-03-2006 14:03:52  
Do a Google search for mule cane mills or simply cane mills. Got lots of hits.

Charles



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Gene-AL

09-03-2006 17:33:02




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to Aowner, 09-03-2006 14:03:52  
Let's go back to the late 30's...You grew a sorgum cane patch, cut and stripped the cane, cut up a pine tree and spilt the sections into sticks about the size of stovewood but longer. Took your cane and the split wood by team & wagon to the local farmer with a sorgum mill. His mule went round & round while a 'hand' fed the cane stalks (and hopeflly not his fingers) through the mill (cane crusher). The juice coming out of the mill was strained through a cheesecloths, then went into one end of a huge flat-bottomed copper pan with partitions positioned to slow the flow of cane juice as it cooked into syrup meandering on the way to a spout at the other end where it filled tin syrup cans. The pan was mounted on top of a pair of parallel rock walls for the firebox which ended in a short rock chimney on one end. Juice in one end, sorgum syrup out the other with a lot of scouping out of ol' greenish fluff called 'skimmin's' along the way by the person doing the cookin'. The cooker got his pay from a 'cut'of the syrup.

Hot biscuits, butter, and sorgum syrup - mmmmm!

I was too small to say BTDT, but I watched.

Gene-AL

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larry in tn

09-04-2006 06:54:37




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to Gene-AL, 09-03-2006 17:33:02  
My grand dad owned a farm in Lamar county Alabama. He grew cane on several acres. It was all hand work back then. I grew up cutting and topping cane. Spent lots of time feeding the cane into the press. Sorguhm was part of our money crop. Lots of people used it in place of white sugar. I remember cooking and skimming it. Seems like we also added some baking soda. Used to get maybe 50 cents a gallon. Now its about $3.00 a quart.

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sam in mo

09-03-2006 17:25:38




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to Aowner, 09-03-2006 14:03:52  
we cook at least two days every year in east cen. mo. press with mules and cook in steel vats that hold about 100 gal we have friends that cook with a evaporater pan also here in mo.



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rodgernbama

09-03-2006 15:18:26




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to Aowner, 09-03-2006 14:03:52  
When I was a kid back in the 60's my grandfather had a cane patch. We cut the cane, loaded it on a wagon and hauled it to a gentleman that made sorguhm. He had a mule that walked in circles that turned a mill that squeezed out the juice. It was caught in vats that were heated by a propane burner I think. The viscosity is real thin when it goes in the vats but thickens as it is heated.



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jbpayne

09-03-2006 18:28:21




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 Re: Sorguhm syrup making in reply to rodgernbama, 09-03-2006 15:18:26  
We plan to make sorghum in about three weeks. We have no mule so I converted the press to belt power with a 1942 5hp LB MCcormick Deering engine. Had a stainless batch pan made that holds about 135 gallons of juice that should yeild about 13- 15 gallons sorghum. Built a brick wood burning furnace, and sawed slab wood on a cutoff saw built by my dad over 75 years ago, and pulled by his 53 IH cub. What fun.

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