This weekend we had the delight of attending a cane syrup boil with Marcus Stewart , a local syruper .
you may see the documentary here , as we play along the cane syrup making process step by whole tone :
How to Make Cane Syrup
The physical process of making cane syrup has a few stop that are unmanageable to overcome on a home scale . Last meter we made our own at home base , I had to go around the juicing process andsimply cook the sugar out of the canes . Juicing wampum cane is much secure , however , and has a high take for much less processing time . If you may juice it !
Juicing Sugar Cane
Juicing sugar cane is actually quite hard . It ’s strong to believe how tough the stems are under press , and it adopt a real short ton ( or more ) of torque to pull off . I tried chopping up sugar cane into patch and feeding it through my Champion imbiber without fate . It choked the motorcar , despite how incredibly baffling that thing is . You really need a machine consecrate to juicing cane .
Marcus use an ex Golden ’s Cane Mill he salvaged for a secure price from an organisation that had been using it as a yard decoration for years .
you’re able to see the sizing of the tree body attached to the lucre cane mill ’s drive shaft in this pic I consume at sundown :
In conversation , he told me the crush power of that motorcar is incredible .
“ Imagine a long - cover twist and how much more forcefulness you get on a bolt , ” he say . “ That ’s a massive amount of torque . ”
He uses a small Sears chiliad tractor to pull the post around the mill . you could see it on the left in the range above .
Three cane at a metre can be crush by the mill , but no more . Their juice is directed down through cloth filter and into pail , which , when fulfill are poured through a 2nd material filter , then pullulate into the boiling timpani .
Juicing the cane is really the heavy part of this full process . Once it ’s juiced , it ’s time for the boiling point .
Boiling Down Cane Syrup
Marcus boils his syrup in a 90 - Imperial gallon retch smoothing iron pot . He deplore not having a proper , wide-eyed syruping kettle , but uses what he has .
The actual stewing takes five or more hours . The end is to vaporise away the water and thicken the sugar cane juice into delightful and ledge - stable syrup . A wide tympanum allows for more evaporative surface .
As the sirup boils , scum is scan off the top .
After hours of boiling , the succus has thickened into productive amber syrup .
The syrup crew , in this case Joshua Ussery , checks the temperature regularly . As the water leaves , the temps go up from 212 , and when they hit a certain point , the sirup is pronounce to be finished . My guess on the point they pull this sirup is in the upper 220 ’s . Other sign of the syrup being end up is the “ clouding up ” of the boil and the bubble size of it , and when a “ rag ” of sirup fall from an upset water ouzel , or else of in item-by-item drops .
At the right heaviness , the fervency is rapidly draw and the sirup is bottle in Mason jars for later sale .
It ’s an all - daylight issue , and is rather like a big sept party at Marcus ’ place , instead of a piece of work day . It sure takes a lot of break down and a caboodle of inspiration , but there is a joyfulness in the process when shared with friend and crime syndicate .
And the result are certainly scented .
Thanks for recital – I hope you enjoy the little docudrama as well .
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Sugarcane Propagation and Why You Should Grow Sugarcane
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Sugar cane harvesting
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