[Red_Devil 232]

Damn tasty on a biscuit! Add a pat of butter and it is heaven on a plate. Cannin' Syrup: Grandma always said when you have a good thing going - then don't change it. Grandma Lillian lived by these words. After marrying Charley Steen Jr. in the early nineteen hundreds, she and her mother-in-law worked side by side canning syrup. "In those days one of us would fill the can with freshly cooked syrup and the other of us would snap on a lid. A man would take it from us, place it on a platform and roll it under a large fan to cool it off (which stopped the can of syrup from further cooking.) After the cans could be handled, it was time to label them. We would make a homemade paste, brush it on the identifying tag and place the tin cans in cases. I remember it was really hard work; we truly put our hearts and souls into what we were doing. You know I have seen the Mill run by four generations of Steen's. We've been through a lot together – the times have sure changed in all these years. I tell you one thing – it's a lot easier on those canning lines they have now than the way we had to do it then." – Lillian B. Steen

[JRandomFreeper]

Wonder what Lillian would think about me brewing with her syrup? ;)

/johnny

[scottteng]

There are demo cane boils all over Florida in the fall I like the one in Gainsville the Saturday after Thanksgiving because they have a fiddle contest for my daughter to enter.
On another note what does everyone do for wine bottles? the bottles are priced reasonably until you get to the shipping then they tend to average out to about $2 per bottle. At that price I’d rather go down to the local Wally World and buy their plonk at $2.97 per bottle and dispose of the content in the approved way and own a bottle for a buck net. Any better ideas out there?