Friday, 19 February 2016

Lets make sugar !

First , You need a shed ofcourse . Tiled , three walled , dirt floor , huge cauldron over woodfire . 

Collect your sugarcanes 

Crush ! .....manual or motorised . 

Collect the juice and Filter out scum :

Pour into cauldron and boil ......boil ....boil ...



About an hour and a half .......add the "additives " 
Sometimes, detergent too , to  lighten  the brown  sugar ! 
Keep the fire going. Feed it  the dried Cane waste left over after juice extraction. 
Mounds of ready fuel ! Some of it might go to make paper . 
Pour the thickened syrup into wooden moulds . 
Jaggery / Gud / Bella / raw sugar ready ! Pack in palm or banana sheaths .

There's always space for a cow or two....they can snack on cane leaves . 

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