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> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:56:11 -0700, Sheldon > wrote:
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>>smithfarm wrote:
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>>> You can only get molasses by boiling the sugar cane juice.
>>
>>That's not true.... molasses is also made from sugar beets, sorghum...
>>
>>When you
>>> are boiling sugar, it's a whole solution.
>>
>><pondering unintelligible scrawl>
>>
>>The sugar crystallizes out
>>> of it and you are left with molasses.
>>
>>"it"? A Bubba Bill wannabe.
>>
>>English is not your primary language?
>>
>>molasses [muh-LAS-sihz]
>>During the refining of sugar cane and sugar beets, the juice squeezed
>>from these plants is boiled to a syrupy mixture from which sugar
>>crystals are extracted.
> snipped....
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> Yes, been there, seen that a lot.
>
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> farmers of Pure Kona

When I was a kid, it was sorghum that we boiled down in huge long pans over
a fire pit; usually over night and somebody would stir. Tasted like
molasses. I don't know the technique, but all of it was raised on our farm.
Dee Dee