[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

He didn’t stay long but when he got out he started growing cane instead of corn and made molasses instead of shine. He was making it when I was a kid. My favorite thing was to help with the molasses. He used a mule and a cane mill. I didn’t help much but I did like to sit on a log with my cup and wait for the hot molasses to come out. :-) My great-aunt always had a big pan of hot buttermilk biscuits to go with it once it started coming out of the mill.

Oh my, what memories!

I kept bees for about 10 years, and part of that is overwinter feeding, and I had 29 hives at one time, which meant I bought up lots of white sugar, maybe more than 100 lbs at once when it was on sale.

One day my dad came in (he is a former district attorney) and he said, "Unless I was looking at a bootlegger, I've never seen that much sugar in one place." And on the other side of some of the inlaws, moonshine is given as Christmas gifts, or so I've been told :-) I'm also kind of sad that today's children don't see the things we did.

[Tennessee Conservative]

I know! My favorite comfort food to this day is hot homemade buttermilk biscuits with warm molasses to dip them in. If you have never had any old-fashioned sorghum molasses on a biscuit you need to try it. :-)

Now I’m craving it.

[Cleebie Grums]

29 hives! That’s alot of work. We’ve had to feed bees during an early dearth this year. Can’t imagine doing it for that many. Hat off to you.