[Syrupmakers] Cooked Sorghum this weekend

[Gail]

Kevin,
You say you did NOT strip your cane before pressing it? So you ran it through
the press leaves and all? Didn't this create a lot of green "scum" to skim
off during cooking? And I guess the stalks didn't get "hot" during those 10
days laying on the trailer prior to cooking---did you have cool temps all
that time? What variety did you plant?

Gail in MO, where I finally found some cane locally for our event, yippee!



"Kevin Harbin" <kharbin at nctv.com> wrote:

> I ground cane Friday night(in the pouring rain) and then most of the day
> Saturday with the #70 Chat. and an H Farmall.  Cooked 3 batches(2 Saturday
> and 1 Sunday) in an 80 gallon Columbus kettle.  Looks like it made about
10
> to 1.  I cut my cane 10 days before I milled it without stripping. 
Deheaded
> with a chainsaw as it lay on the trailer.  

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