The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Making Molasses

Sugar cane, feed cane (cut, stripped; take leaves [head] off) into a mill.
Mule walks around mill to turn.
Pipe runs to pans with four areas (fire underneath pans).
Each pan gets finer (skim, gets redder). Final pan pull out stopper and runs into jars.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Prospect