Making Cane Syrup
by D Hackett
Title
Making Cane Syrup
Artist
D Hackett
Medium
Photograph - Digital
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Making Cane Syrup by D Hackett
A wagon full of sugar cane is brought to the back of the syrup shed and fed into the double drum mill where the juice is squeezed into a five gallon tub covered with cheesecloth to catch the solid materials. This juice is transferred to a sixty gallon cast iron syrup kettle where it is cooked several hours to the proper thickness, then bottled by hand for friends and relatives to take home
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November 23rd, 2014
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