Sorghum making in Muddy Pond Tennessee!

hey folks Michael McGee here in today's video we're going to do what we promised you a month ago when we were with Pete over getting some Wild Hogs Wild Hogs were damaging this organ just tearing it up so he caught them give them to us we was able to make some sausage and cook them and all that good stuff and when at that time we promised you we would make a sorghum video So today we're here it is the perfect thing in the fall of the year and it's wonderful to get out and make some sorghum some people call it sorghum molasses that gives you an idea of kind of what we're going to make sorghum is a product that's a little bit like molasses but instead of coming from sugar cane it comes from sorghum and to be honest with you if you wasn't raised with it although it's sweet you still might not like the taste it is a southern thing as you see what you want to do come in here first and strip these leaves off of this cane it doesn't have to be done this is optional but some think that the leaves add a little bit of a bitter flavor so we're just going to strip them off here and as we strip them you can see right here the boys are cutting it just the same as we did when we was making silage when we cut the corn off and ground it we're cutting the Sorghum off putting it in piles and then we're going to take that to the press and we're going to instead of chopping it we're going to press it and some people call it grinding it but we're pressing the juice out so that's what we're going to be doing I say let's get with it [Music] thank you [Music] all right it looks like we are just about to get done with the two rows on this edge of the field so we're going to get over there and get depressed I was noticing in the camera it looks like the boys are chopping real close to each other's feet not necessarily the case camera angles make all the difference we did have a safety tarp before we commenced this as a young man in the Amish community here in Tennessee we raise this stuff and one of the things that I always enjoyed doing was peeling out a joint of this no joke please and chewing the juice out of it try that you have a knife down through there fill this off like this and you'd be surprised how tasty that is you kind of see kind of understand why the wild hogs want to get into it oh man try that Dave you have that just peel that on if you remember the video of the wild pigs you remember old Pete getting a piece of that pulp off of the ground that the pigs spit out and he said just like a human and then spit it out just like a human being would it is just like a human you chew it all out all you got left is fiber spit that fiber out take you another bite anybody that is sweet as sugar back when the pigs were getting it it wasn't that sweet which was strange they usually wait till it's sweet and now I got these four little pigs up here eating it now and boys they're good all right boys enough of this we gotta go press some cane [Music] all right we got the horse loose time to press some sword watch that headboard head boy all right we always have to put the large end of the stock in first because you don't want that head to crack pressing that sorghum because if it gets if you got three stalks in there on the small end and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger it can't crack it head it's happened many times now we always put the big end in first and with one horse no more than three stocks at a time when I was Amish we'd put as many as we could get in but we had a big team of draft mules and that made a difference what you're going to notice is every time that horse gets right here he stops because that's where he rests and horses have this love for resting I don't know why coming out of the dress the Pressed stalks that are nothing but pulp no juice in them that is called pumice I don't know why it's called promise and see horse stops right here it's called Thomas and it's used for mulching raspberries blackberries it could even be made silage out of what I would like to do is plant some of this sorghum in my cornfield and make silage with the corn and store them together I think that'd be great I don't think this horse really likes me standing here so I'm going to move on back out of the way and let all my boys have a chance to feed this doing what I did as a kid that they've never got to do yet [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] this juice is going to go into this barrel and it's going to flow into this pipe and it's going to go down the hill and be cooked down there in this sorghum shed they have a really nice well set up sorghum Shack we'll be going through that on a tour in a moment foreign [Music] cried to the people you know right now as you can see behind me it is a quite an attraction [Music] we're going to get to hear the steam whistle blow okay everybody ready all right we're ready to go on in to see the rest of the process oh Eddie is going to explain this entire process here in just a second Eddie is Pete Gunther's brother by the way [Applause] around each one of these things here with all those baffles they love the right battle and hook it's cooking out all the water and all the trees the outside we don't want that in there that's that's chlorophyllis it makes it taste bad so we skim that off and don't let that get in the product you push it down cooking the water down I'm hooking the juice down boiling out your water in the green let's see and the further down it comes you see it's starting to change the color all right so the further down it comes it changes more and more and when it gets all the way down here to the end it's done and it runs out and it runs down into a container there and the pump takes it overhead through the cooling tray and down into the tank and down in the tank there are the bottoman was remain they fill it they you saw the fire out there that fire is heating water making the Steam and the steam is actually what's cooking the sword the steam is under the pan in a little bit a little jacket it's a little jacket and that's what's causing it to boil it looks weird now this stuff here we don't do that or skim that off it goes down into a bucket right under here how many gallons of juice does it take to make a gallon of sorghum some years it's as high as ten to one uh this year we've been running around eight about eight gallons of juice one gallon of salt better year than it is yeah it's the drier weather makes for that it's a lot higher sugar content okay so organ pain that's different than sugarcane yeah yeah Jared ought to be down here making the video I know that's what Uncle said [Music] all right folks there you have it that's how sorghum is made if you're interested in trying it to see what it tastes like just drop down to the link that's in the description of this video and you can go get some that was cooked here that came from this pan right here and you'll get to see what the hype is all about and if you're from the north you're probably going to not think it tastes that great because it ain't maple syrup but who cares this is the South and this is what we like [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] folks we're back out here at the Press where this all started but we're going to get on out of here if you want some sorghum hit up the website that I've got in my description but we're going to get out of here first today so we hope that you have a great day we'll see you on the next video [Music]

Channel: McGie Homestead Adventures

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Length: 14min 21sec (861 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 11 2022