ABINGDON, Va. — The sweet smell of boiling sorghum syrup was in the air at Fairview Historic Homestead last Friday when members of the Old Glade Antique Tractors Association (OGATA) took turns ...

Not so long ago, many farming families in Southern Appalachia celebrated the long-anticipated arrival of the harvest season with a special treat: fresh sorghum syrup. Today, thousands still flock to ...

The fire driving Mark Guenther's 33-year-old locomotive boiler raged outside his steam-filled production room. Making sorghum syrup is not cool work, even on the first day the Monterey, Tenn. heat had ...

Sorghum molasses is probably an acquired taste. Kind of like licorice or turnip greens. Once converted, however, molasses consumers are loyal to a fault. A Ron Jenkins article that appeared in The ...

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In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...

Sep. 3—Bathed by the cherry glow of a fire and wreathed in steam wafting from a boiling tray of sorghum juice, Tracy Best looks like a man out of time. Swap out his ball cap and sleeveless shirt for ...