Making Sorghum Molasses~ From Field to the Jar
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2020
- We did it!! Praise the Lord! The sorghum molasses is in the jars and we couldn't be more excited! Now you can spend a few minutes watching the days harvesting the cane to cooking down the syrup. Beautiful brown nutritious sorghum syrup that is called "molasses" around here.
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So good to see the family doing things as a team more of this is needed now days I can almost smell the cooking love this keep it up
Thanks! Blessings
Oh my gosh, what a flashback - I'm 63, and I recall when I was around 8 or 10, grandpa making his sorghum molasses. He had a mule or a horse, I forget, who walked in circles to press the canes, but otherwise it was the same process. It was a long day or two until we got a taste - but he made the prettiest golden sorghum I've ever seen. It's all so much darker and more bitter, what I find these days. But sometimes... I get lucky and find some *almost* as good as his, and mash it with a little butter and spread it on bread and remember when.
We are looking at a small mill now we hope to restore and pull with our horse. Great memory. Blessings
Nelly and Pete were grandad's old mules..
Yep, a mule, my grandfather used, in East Texas as late as the mid sixties.
Funny, my dad and I loved the bitter stuff. I recall thinking if it wasn't bitter enough I didn't think it was real sorghum.
Is it a thick as honey? Or water? Or ...corn syrup? Trying to figure it out.
You could tell that Pops knew what was up with that press. None of that "One stalk per opening at a time" nonsense. :-) He's got places to be and things to do!
He said let’s get this show on the road!
Where or what store can we buy these Sorghum jar? They look really good.
I was gonna type same thing..
He probably ran one when he was young
Exactly!
My grand father had a sorghum mill and he passed away when I was 5 years old. I am 80 years old now. I remember he had cans of saorghum cans lined up on the front porch. People from miles away would come and buy from him. I have not found molasses as good as his. I still remember how good his tasted. I hope you and your family has a wonderful and blessed week.
That's amazing! Thank you for sharing your story. Blessings
This warmed my soul to watch this. I feel so happy right now. So encouraging
Thank you for your words of encouragement. Blessings
Hey Grandpa Knows how to run the press! Lol It 's good to see a family working together! Lots of Sorghum!
Thanks! Blessings!
This is so exciting for me.
I was raised with Sorgum, but I had no idea how much work it was to go to the jar. Thank you so much for sharing your talent. God Bless you.
Oh thank you! Blessings
I remember getting out of school at lassy making time. My grandfather was the one that the neighbors would call to make sure they were done cooking. God I miss those times
I'm so glad your family has kept this tradition alive and also that you've taken the time to share it with us all. Thanks and may God continue to shower blessings on you and yours.
I bet that tastes a whole lot better than store bought!
I really enjoy seeing things like this especially in todays fast paced crazy world.
Thank you! Blessings
Best comment and this video some how relaxed me even though it was hard work to produce the molasses.
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I remember as a child (5) my dad took me to the farm where molasses was being made. He and I loved molasses on my mom's biscuits with butter.
The cane was being cooked in a big, round, iron pot with green bubbles coming up with a donkey attached to the stirrer just going around in circles. I can't remember if it was cooked all night.
That was in Eleanor, West Virginia in 1950. We went back another time to buy the jars of black molasses.
I can just taste it now.
Wonderful story, thanks for sharing. Blessings
Oatmeal....
Now all I need to see is a big plate of hot biscuits with real butter and that delicious syrup!!
Nice slice of cured ham!!!
BIG GLASS OF COLD MILK!!!
BLESS MY ❤ ❤ HEART.!!!!
Yum! Blessings
When I was a kid a friend of mine ‘s parents made molasses. They had an old Steam Powered tractor ( as kids we thought it was a train engine) and we’d all go out to their farm when harvest time was there and cut and squeeze it with a big press like this one . Glad to see someone is still doing it the old way ( well , without the steam engine) with lots of family hands on.
Love steam power! Thanks for the story. blessings
When I was in high school I used to go to Louisiana and cut fire wood for my Pawpaw's sugar cain syrup mill.
What a great memory! Blessings
One of the best educational vids on youtube. I loved seeing the whole family helping.
Wow, thank you!
That was the way me and my family made them back in the hills of Appalachian mountains of southwest va. Made them for about 12 or 15 years. Old age caught up with us had to quit
Awe don't say that, we all still need your wisdom. Besides, we couldn't do it without Papaw and he's 91! Blessings
I cannot begin to tell you how beautiful this video was! Blessings to each and every one of y’all!
Thank you so much!
Wonderful family, wonderful video. So nice to see old timey ways continue with self sufficiency. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, skills, and hard work with us. With love from BanDana Gramma ❤
Oh, thank you! You are such a blessing. Love and blessings
Good to see folks making product, from scratch, with love! Blessings to you!
Thank you! Blessings
That's the best-looking sorghum I've seen in awhile I love growing it... I think that's the greatest alternative food for your chickens food for yourself don't know why people don't want to think like that but we got to go back to that real quick like...
I used to raise my own poultry, just a half acre piece of land where my house sat, and all I ever feed them was sorghum. Those hens laid some amazing eggs! They mostly scratched all day, but every midmorning they'd get a good helping of their feed, and whatever they left was taken up by whatever birds were around.
Anyway, the eggshells took some doing to crack, the yolk was a deep yellow, and everyone that tried our eggs said they tasted so rich. I haven't been able to eat eggs or any fowl for a long time, so I can't say, but I know that my baking with eggs is asked for by my family and friends quite regularly especially my enriched dough breads like brioche and challa.
As you can probably tell, I do a lot of cooking from scratch, it's the healthiest way to live. I use lard for cooking when it suits better than butter, I even use it to make soap, and I use molasses, any kind, to make it give better suds.
I wish I lived in an area where sorghum was grown. I'd be buying the molasses and the sorghum for making my own flour, and popping the grain to make popped treats with the molasses! So good!
I love molasses!! Mix a dollop of butter and sop it up with home made biscuits!!! Best way to finish off a big Sunday breakfast!!
Okay now I'm going to have to go make biscuits, lol. Blessings
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Add fried squirrel, squirrel gravy finished off with molasses.
@@mistermurtad2831 I've had squirrel but never squirrel gravy, sounds good.
@@miraclefarm1927 Fried squirrel makes good gravy. You have to cook it slow with a lid to get it tender, though.
That looks so delicious. I remember helping my grandparents doing this process and then my grandmother made the most incredible biscuits and having homemade butter and molasses as soon as it was done. What a wonderful memory. Thank You
Thank you! Blessings
This video did my heart and soul a world of good. Raised on a farm I always had this kind of syrup with homemade biscuits. 💖
We gladly thank you! Blessings
It is nice to see someone still using a Ford tractor. The first vehicle I learned to drive was a Ford Jubilee on my grandfathers farm in Irwin County, Ga when I was 12. I also ate a lot of sugar cane when I was a boy. Me and my trusty Barlow, which I always had in my pocket. I am surprised you did not cut the cane down with a sickle side cutter on that little Ford. We did not cut down tobacco with an axe. We picked it and put it in sleds to take to the tobacco barn. I know because I pulled the sleds. It was then tied to tobacco stick and hung in the tobacco barn. He never grew any sigh I’m that I remember.
Thank you! Yes a lot of people cut theirs with a sickle mower (we cut hay with ours) With no more than we have it's easier to cut it while it is standing so we don't have to pick it up and untangle from the ground. Blessings
WONDERFUL VIDEO, Thanks for posting, I was raised on a farm, back when we used Mules and Horses to pull the Equipment, My whole Family worked in the fields, the little kids and babies went to the fields just like the Adults, The Little ones were kept in the shade and checked on regular. The rest of us worked at what ever there was that needed doing, Chopping the Cotton or Picking it by Hand, Things have really changed since then, There was no such thing as I can't, There was only I will Try and do my best, My Momma always said that work Originated at a Sorghum Mill, It looks like she knew what she was talking about, I never had to do that, You never had enough time to be Depressed, It was a Wonderful Life, Looking back on it, But I Like it better today, Compared to that time, EVERYONE is Rich today. 81 Years Old, and so glad to still be here, Love the way these people work together,
Thanks for your story, loved it! Blessings
I remember doing that same thing back in the 60s when I was just a kid when we lived in Florida.
Glad we brought up some fond memories. Blessings
I went into this video not realizing just how wholesome it was. By the end of the video I not only learned how to make molasses, but I felt the love and familial bond that this family shares with one another. I hope to one day experience this with my own family. Thank you so much for sharing
You are so very welcome. Blessings
What a beautiful family get together ❤ working and sharing ❤
Thank you! Blessings
Loved seeing this, my grandparents did this in East Texas as late as the mid sixties.
Most folks don't have a clue. Yall are doing a great job. Wow-what a beautiful jar of molasses. It is a labor of love that you are doing. I wish I were closer I would have come and helped. It is a lot of good knowledge to learn these things. Glad you found a press to do it. God bless Cathy
I wish you did too! Thank you for your support. Blessings
A cousin of my dad's used a mule walking in a circle to press the sorghum to make molasses. The mule was hitched to a wooden bar going to a wooden press. I wish I'd paid more attention to the press workings at the time, but I was young and wasn't much interested at the time.
@@beccagee5905 I watch a channel that still has one of those.
Bless you all for keeping our traditions alive🥰💐
Thank you! Blessings to you!
I sure would like to have a quart of that syrap in S E Texas . I did enjoy your video . Rob.
I'm from s e Texas too , and like you brother I grew up on cane syrup too !!! Fond memories . when I'm back there I puck up a quart or two .
So much hard work and doesn't that molasses look so, so good!! Hope you ended up with enough jars. It looks beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Such a lost art. I am teaching my kids the old ways! Thank you for passing it on! Love you all
Glad you enjoy it!
@@miraclefarm1927 I just need to find a grinder like that! Question, I hear that sorghum is invasive can you confirm or debunk this?
Thanks for a taste of yesterday, of all the things men do on earth, this honest, hard work is a blessing from God that can’t be quantified.
So nice of you
I remember when my family use to do this also!!! I loved it!! Brings back a lot of Great Memories!!
Thank you! Blessings
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Here in Ohio we tap maple trees and boil off the sap in much the same way. Processing sorghum is way more labor intensive.
Love real maple syrup! Blessings
Sounds great!!!
I’m 23 and so very interested in self sufficiency. I’m wanting to learn more about growing staples - sugar, grains, oils. This is awesome. Thank you for this video!
My daughter in the video is 21, you two have the same spirit. Just studied that the sorghum heads are gluten free and can be made into a flour to make flat bread. This year we plan on hanging and drying them on tobacco sticks to keep them from molding. We will be doing this again mid October so stay tuned! Blessings
That’s about the tallest sorghum I’ve ever seen. That will make a lot of molasses. No one make it here in Western Kentucky anymore that I know of.
Thank you! We did get a lot of juice. Blessings
That was silage sorghum that's why it is so tall. Grain Sorghum is only waist high or so.
So glad yall keep this alive. Thanks for sharing.
Looks amazing. I bet it is delicious!
I could smell that cooking! It’s been too many years since we made our cane syrup on the farm.
Wow!! Greeting from the sugar cane country in Cairns Australia. Most relaxing and tranquil vid my wife and I have watched for some time. Best of wished to you and your family.
That is so nice of you, thank you! Blessings
Beautiful families! I loved watching your video! I didn't know how much time in effort went into making Sorghum but I do know that I've eaten my share of it and love it. Upon the mountain where I used to live, I have seen it made with pulling horses or mules, can't remember which, and it was a long time ago. We used to buy it by the gallons and had it every morning with breakfast, and it is delicious, especially with homemade buttered biscuits. Thank you for sharing it and blessings to all.
Thank you for your story! Blessings
I don't know how I got here. I don't know what I am even watching. I do know that seeing those leaves being stripped off seemed so calming and therapeutic. Why did this world think it would be better to mass produce, make everything faster and computerized. I was not raised to do hard work, and it has affected my entire life. I always wish I could have been born many many more years than I was where I would have been working for every little thing I needed or wanted. Humans have used our awesome brains to screw ourselves over. Look at the beautiful planet and what we have done to it. Shame on us. Now I will return to watching this awesome video and figure out just what they are doing lol. God Bless
Our thoughts exactly! We decided to make this little farm into a place of refuge from this world and Gad has helped us do just that. Now our children are doing it to. You can choose the smallest thing like growing an herb in a windowsill to start tracing your way back to a simpler time. A time where you count on God for your food and not Walmart. Blessings
I know my grand parents made sorghum molasses but at 73 I have only ever seen a sorghum press work once and it was powered by a mule. They did not boil down the juice at old timers event I went to. Although I grew up on a farm I never saw tall sorghum grown, the only sorghum that grew was bicolored sorghum they only harvested the heads for animal feed.
Boyd Napier, my grandfather (b1912), was known in West Virginia as the best Molasses producer throughout the state and beyond. In fact, each year Bob Evans would send a car to pick him up to travel to his farm in Ohio to produce Molasses at his annual fair.
Now that is some great history! Thanks for sharing. Blessings
Sorghum and biscuits is the best! Not many people know of this great tasty stuff. In WV we sure do! Thank you for this video. It really shows all the loving work that goes into making it!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Back in the late 1940's I watched my GP make ribbon cane syrup by a similar process, but his process was more continuous. He had one table made of 1/4 steel plate, 3" wide and 15" long with 3" 'fencing' on the edge, creating a huge flat long pot. Wood fires were set under the table. The juice was fed into one end and syrup came out the other end by gravity flow. Guys with wooden paddles kept scraping and stirring the juice as it boiled, to avoid scorching.
That's awesome! Blessings
Praise God! It's from him that ALL blessings flow! Nice to meet more Bible believers! Amennnnnnnn!😊
Thanks and Blessings!
It’s a blessing that The Lord Jesus has allowed us to make such tasty food with loving friends & family!
Agreed! Blessings
I know that is a lot of work and makes for some long days. But you are making some very good memories with your family.
There are a lot of ways and techniques for making sorghum. I suppose the only right way is the one that is right for you.
After making sorghum for many years, I am partial to the evaporator pan as opposed to the batch cooking pan. I have used a machete or even wood laths for stripping the cane. When the weather is conducive, cane can be cut and left laying on the ground for a week. I think it makes better sorghum when done this way. We would stack the cane crosswise of the wagon and then take a chainsaw and cut the heads off at one time. The top 2 to 3 feet of the cane has very little sweet juice.
We still have three sorghum mills and your video brings back a lot of memories.
Thanks for the video!
Thanks for sharing. Blessings
Miracle Farm 1927 Homestead,
Are you going to make sorghum again this fall?
@@imstillright9261 Check out tomorrow's video and see, wink, wink. Blessings
Miracle Farm 1927 Homestead, Sounds great!
Can I have one of your mills?
Watching you and your people, reminds me of my younger days.
Oh how I'd love to try your molasses. Store bought ain't nothing like homemade.
New subscriber. Blessings all
How sweet thank you. Blessings
Thanks for this video. My great grandpa, Stephen Easley, used to grow sorghum cane in the 1940s in NW Arkansas. Him and you 'all are a much tougher breed than I am.
Awe thank you. My daughter just visited Arkansas. Blessings
SEATEDINHVN i love Arkansas! We are from nw Arkansas Siloam springs!
The presidential medal of freedom to you! Thanks 😊♡♡
I Remember Seeing This Made as a Kid a Fuw Times & we always had Sorghum on the table growing up !
In Brownsboro, Texas, on my Grandparents farm, a "Stand" of sugar Sorghum near the Kickapoo creek bottom would be grown each year. In this case about two acres, was a stand. Strip and harvest was on day. The next day was press and boil and can. Neighbors from a nearby Baptist church would help. The second day was in conjunction with food bought by all. The molasses was devided up. A large portion went to the church for auction. Proceeds from the auction went for upkeep of the church.
What a great story! That had to be a lot of molasses. Did you have more than one cooking? That's a lot of juice to put in a pan. Blessings
@@miraclefarm1927 Sorry, I don't remember much more then that. But I do remember that there were multiple vats to cook down the juice, and cooking day started early and lasted long. Grandad loved his molasses and biscuits.... So do I. In my granddads youth, they had no "store Bought" candy...so that was a treat taken up by molasses. Honey was way to expensive over home made molasses. He was born in 1900, before electricity got to the farm. And before the first airplane.
@@miraclefarm1927 Also, the vats were wood fired, so there was a slight smoky taste to the molasses. I think it made a better taste.
@@raywhitehead730 love your story! Thank you!
Have jar in my pantry. Yum! Wonderful video. Thank you.
I am 69, and my grandfather used to make this. I have never seen the process and am glad this video will show me!
Nice work! Sorghum is huge
Thanks!
Thank ya'll so much for sharing your knowledge,this was so interesting to watch!
Wonderful video! Great music. Thank you!!
Absolutely beautiful ❤
We have been so curious about growing sorghum because of the multitude of things that can be done with one beautiful plant. Thank you for such a lovely video and sharing your friends and family with us. Many blessings to you and yours from the Thibodeaux Family in Southeast Texas 🇺🇲
So glad you enjoyed it. Now grow you some! Blessings
Do happy you're still making it. My daddy made sorghum. We would have it every morning with homemade biscuits. Previous memories 🙂😜.
Precious memories 💞
There is nothing better than working the homestead. Home grown with out the extras. Good Bless you and your family.
Thank you for saying so. Blessings
I was probably about 12-13 years old when I first stripped sugarcane to make sorghum molasses. It wis a painful experience. My young hands were cut to pieces by the end of the day..We had no gloves. The best part was wartching the process of the syrip being boiled down.We were 5 children, so we did not sell any, it was for our family that winter. The same process was true for cornmeal...I will be 85 in Feb. and don't regret a day of the hard labor we all experienced.
What a wonderful story. Blessings
I just subscribed to your channel. I’m from Canada and have never seen, nor understood exactly how molasses was made. Thank you for this satisfying and educational video. Just watching your family pitching in, getting the work done (so labour intensive!), and the whole process of making molasses, sure is going to make me appreciate it a whole lot more from now on, that’s for sure! Thank you for a great video. I’m now anxiously waiting for your next one! God bless.
Thank you so much for your kind words. Will be harvesting again next month and answering more questions, so stay tuned. Blessings
It’s also made from sugar cane. I’ve never had sorghum molasses before. Looks really good. I live in Oregon and I don’t believe we have this as a crop in the Pacific Northwest. We’ve always used molasses made with sugar cane.
Wow, so much fun to watch and remember. It's been 40+ years since we had a syrup making and you forgot one important step in the process. Before you put all it in the jars you are supposed to have a huge mound of butter biscuits to sop up the fresh hot molasses with a cold glass of whole milk. Life doesn't get any better than that.
Shalom vberakhot,
JJ
Lol! Yum Yum! Thanks for stopping by.
My dad used to make it years ago Andy from Abbeville sc
That is awesome!
thank you for posting this video! it takes me right back to my childhood when my family would gather at my Pappaw Bill's farm in Flat Top, WV to make molasses just like this! what a lost art! :)
Thank you! Blessings
this sort of effort reminds me of "maple sugaring" taking sap from maple trees and making syrup as we do up here in the northeast - amazing to see such great traditions kept going
and the togetherness of family.
Thank you! Blessings
Best thing I've seen in a while, I felt like I was right there with you.
Thank you! We want you to feel at home here. Love your name by the way. Blessings
When I was growing up, my Daddy grew sorghum. We had a big round wheel that turned round and around in big circles .this was pulled by a mule.I remember chewing on a cane of the raw sorghum. Some things you don't forget
Thank you very much for sharing. My family enjoyed this very much. As a kid, I saw this done at the Lochapoka Sourgum Sopin near Auburn Alabama.
Wonderful! What a name!
A lot of manual labor. Reminds me of our first couple years on the farm. To fill silo, we had an old belt driven Blizzard chopper/blower. All the corn and sorgum were cut with hooked corn knives, loaded in a side wall wagon and hauled to the barnyard. Dad and my brother fed the chopper/blower and I was in the silo packing it all down tight. Made some sweet smelling silage. While we worked, the cows would stand at the barnyard gate bellowing for samples.
I bet they did! They wanted their candy.
I didn’t know that molasses can be made from sorghums until watching this video. Thanks for sharing this beautiful video
That is very kind of you to say, thank you.
A labor of love all people need more of this
Thank you! Blessings
That was great.
Wow lots of hard work to bring such a wonderful treat. God bless you all.
Thank you! Blessings
Some hot buttermilk biscuits and salmon patties would go PERFECT with your molasses. Y’all made that with love❤️
We sure did. Thank you for you comment. Blessings
Holy cow that is amazing!
Thank you! Blessings
Most amazing process , a lot of work !!! Thanks for showing this process , a labor love. Gonna buy some next trip out !!! Thank you
Thank you! Blessings
That’s awesome. I wish I was around this growing up
People like us are still out there. Hope you find someone near you!
Lovely family here in mexico we feed them to the cows and sheep's im going try it.i wonder if i can make it with mangoes also.nice video all family working together beautiful. Blessing for you all.
There's a lot of different cultivars of Milo (Sorghum). Most are grown for the seed for livestock feed because it grows so well in arid climates but it doesn't make the sugar needed for making syrup.
I don't know about the mango's? Black sorghum syrup has a pretty strong flavor, the mango flavor would probably get lost in there? Mango syrup sounds good to me though! :)
Blessings to you!
That is a lot of hard work. I always loved that. I never like Maple syrup. My Daddy use to make peanut candy with the syrup. Those are good memories. Y’all are also making good memories. God Bless!
Thank you! Blessings
I watched your u tube and saw that there are many similarities to what you are doing and my father who cut cane by hand many years a go. He had a cane knife which had a blade very similar to the tobacco knife you had but slightly bigger. They stripped the leaves off with a stick that had two pieces of rubber that went down either side of the stalk and it was pulled down, taking the leaves off. This video took me back to my child hood days in North Queensland Australia.
Thank you for your story. I wish that I could see a picture of that stick with the rubber on it. Sounds like it would get the job done in a hurry. Blessings
Found you and subscribed, so glad to have met you at Turtle Island!
So glad to have met you too!
Great video! Thank you so much 😊
Really learned a lot and thank-you.
Thank you! Now that we have had more questions we will be more informative when we harvest in Oct. Stay tuned! Blessings
I like this kind of lifestyle, close to nature, free , good exercise, and earning money ❤😀
That's the dream.
Wonderful show I loved every moment.
Most of all, family working together.
I heard somewhere in your conversation,
Something about the Lord. Thank you so very much.
Never would have thought this comes from the cane/stalk. Pretty neat. Thanks for the video.
sugar from sugarcane plant is also extracted from stalk juice
new subscriber!!! Living Miracle Homestead sent me!!!
Very interesting,
I did not know, if the Sorghum molasses exists,
Thank you .
Thank you!
Im so glad I found you all by chance, I had bought sorghum seeds to plant when I move and now I know what exactly to do with it, thank you and God Bless🙏☺
That's wonderful! Blessings
never seen the likes of it. Thanks for sharing
That’s some good looking sorghum molasses!
What a pleasant surprise a great clip with down to earth good people well done kindest regards from BALLARAT ,in AUSTRALIA
Well howdy Australia!! Thanks and blessings
Excellent demonstration!
Thank you! Blessings
OMG thats looks awesome
Oh, that you! Be sure to join us later in the Fall for this years syrup cooking. Blessings
my dad was born in 43 and worked on his granddad's farm near Bowman, GA. he told me about sorghum they grew and processed into some kind of syrup that i think was what you're referring to in this vid. thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!