It's opened up, so fill it.
OBTW, morning y'all.

Shortround out

 

Good morning from Paradise.
This is hard to believe! Here it is, late on Sunday morning and nobody is here yet! What a bunch of sleepy lay-ins! You think just because it is Sunday that gives you the right to sleep in?
Have just brewed some decent coffee, so maybe the enticing aroma of fresh brewed coffee will titillate your senses and get y'all stirring. Most of you will not understand it, but this mornings coffee is Tim Horton's. You will understand it once you taste it.

 

G'Day from the right coast.

Another day of bachelor life.
Breakfast of bagels cuz' I'm too lazy to make eggs and snausages.
Coffee's on, get it before it's all gone.

All chores completed yesterday, so today is a "Do What I Feel Like" kinda day.

Y'all stay safe,

 

Sun is shining and it's a perfect early fall day so I'll place my butt on the Honda and have a look whether the gravel roads do behave nicely or not

Have a nice day

AlpineRAM

 

Thanks for the coffee. Don't care whos' it is as long as it's strong. Too quiet in the big house tonight. They must be up to something... 3 more hours to go. Keep the foo foo strong.

 

Gossip central? Is this where we get to spread rumors about marines & such? Like any rumors you have heard are untrue.

 

Now that the sun is poking it's lovely face above the horizon, it would appear that the day is going to be a nice one.
Gonna finish up the services on the truck first thing this morning. Then the better half and I are going to cruise the farm land east of here while being on the lookout for old sorghum cooking sheds. Hopefully, that theory may lead us to a press nearby.
I actually went all day without the Bat Phone ringing. Guess all the chair shuffling is keeping the "leadership" at work way too busy to worry about little things such as how to keep operations going.
Stan, got any sorghum/cane presses out in your part of the world?
Better git moving, daylights a wasting.

Shortround out

 

What the heck is a sorghum cooking shed?

 

Have not seen anything like that in my area as that kind of thing will probably be used in the northern ans southern parts. Will keep my eyes peeled tho.

 

Sorghum syrup processing 101
The cane is run through a roller press to squeeze the juice out.
The juice is strained and put into a long pan (2 - 3 ft wide x 8 - 12 ft long x 1ft deep getting shallower as it gets to the end).
A fire is built under the pan and the juice cooks for several hours.
In the end, you have beautiful sorghum syrup (known as molasses in some part of the country).
Take a big ole platter of cathead bisquits, real butter, and sorghum and you have a meal fit for a king. Other food products with it is optional.
End of lesson.

Shortround out

 

A Sorgum Press:


A Sorgum Shed( cookery):




Photos are from the Clinton Family Farms website( I dont beleive any relation to teh "Clintons"....)

 

Just got to get these northern folks educated.
OBTW, the shed is where the sorghum juice is cooked.

Shortround out

 

I I remember correctly, sorgum can be boiled out as well as pressed???
been a loooong time since I thought about this stuff.

 

I grew up in sugar cane country (Zululand) and not far from a couple of cane mills and the local railroad station used to often store huge railroad tankers full of black molasses (also known as blackstrap to some) As kids we used to go down and look for a tanker that had a leaky valve and stick a finger in and lick the thick, sticky, yummy molasses off our fingers.
BTW, if you ever see how sugar is made, you probably would never eat sugar again. The cane is pressed uncleaned, dirt, bugs, the odd snake (free protein) and much more. The dirty brown juice runs down what looks like open drains to the next process.

 

morning folks, Im no longer international.