[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[Indiana Robinson]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:14 AM, David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net> wrote:
> My maternal grandfather was the man for boiling sugar cane in these
> parts in the 1950's and early 1960's.  He had his cane crop and he would
> make molasses for others on shares.  He had a large pan as big or bigger
> Charlie.  It was constructed with compartments and a gate to the next
> compartment that could be opened to allow the sap/molasses to be moved
> from one section to another as the water was evaporated.  It was set up
> on a rock frame (composing the firebox) which he ONLY would fire.
> He also had a press that had been converted from mile power to be run
> with the belt pulley from the AC D-10.
> I was small so I didn't learn a lot of details but I do remember the
> product was very tasty.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
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I have a cane press that I bought about a dozen years ago in another
lifetime. It looks much like this one:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1249/530569680_79a6361698.jpg?v=0
Here they were used for sorghum.



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