Sorghum making in Muddy Pond Tennessee!
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- We are so excited to bring you this long awaited video! Sorghum is a southern sweet that is a very rich tradition here! Here’s how it’s made in Muddy Pond Tennessee! Get your own here and see what you’re great grandparents were talking about!!
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My grandfather did not raise sorghum himself, but he owned the grinder and the mules. He would grind the sorghum and other sugar cane and boil down the syrup. The local farmers would set up a local canning machine where the syrup was made.
My grandfather did not charge for this but he bartered “shares” of the canned syrup.
It’s amazing how many wonderful memories the old-timers left us!
My dad would occasionally bring in a jar of sourghum .
He'd put two or three pats of butter on his plate after supper and a spoonful of sourghum over the butter and mix it with his fork and sop it up with mom's homemade biscuits good memories
That’s exactly how it’s supposed to be done!!!!
Only way to eat it! LOL
Not many left that knows what sopping a biscuit is.
That's the only way I eat it.
My grandmother called that 'business' ??????
I can remember eating molasses on my biscuits in armathwate just to the East of Jamestown back in the late 60’s early 70’s at my grandmas house when I was a young boy sure do miss those simpler times no cell phones they didn’t even have a tv just an old radio remember drawing water from the the well life goes bye way to fast now.
We definitely live in a different world…… and not for the better!
Years ago, my mom and dad had a small farm in middle Georgia, where one year he grew sorghum cane. He bought an old fashioned cane press off the Market Bulletin newspaper, and rigged it up to his tractor. I went down and helped him one Saturday to run it and it was a disaster. They did get sorghum eventually, but it was not as expected. He ended up selling the press and stuck to raising sweet corn, so he could take it to a grist mill to be ground into cornmeal. He would give each child (3) a 100 lb cloth sack full of cornmeal for Christmas. I loved it, and miss those days.
Yes it’s absolutely easier said than done, making sorghum!
My mother would cook the Sorghum off on the stove and it lasted us for months, brings back good memories my friend.
Oh my goodness yes! Lots of great memories!
Never knew it existed until just now. Thanks for enlightening me and blessings from England.🙏🏻
You’re absolutely welcome brother!
I grew up in near Eiffel Plasterer`s house and we used to ride our bikes over and watch him make it. He was a genius and he was called the Bubble Man due to his experiments with bubbles. He even made it I think on the David Letterman show and he always did demonstrations to the children. Loved the sorghum we chewed on and took some home to my mom. We grew up planting a huge garden every year and mom would can and freeze for days. I still like to can up fresh green beans but not on the scale we used to. I love to open a couple of jars for thanksgiving when it`s cold out and you are eating something that normally would be eat, I say I would "et" beans in the summer but when you get to et them in the winter I think they taste even better. Love your channel and continued good fortunes and health. God bless you and your kin!
Thanks so much! Yes indeed many great memories!
I grew up in Florida eating this, 78 years ago. We always just called it cane syrup. Would love to have some right now, with my mother's biscuits.
Oh my goodness yes!!!😋😋😋😋
Not just a Southern thing. My grandma, originally from central Illinois, used to make sorghum. Good stuff.
Wow that’s awesome!!!
We bought a quart, and it is so good. The sorghum cookie recipe on the jar makes the softest, most delicious cookies.
Sounds great!
My dad was sorghum maKer .he made the best neighbors would hire him make theirs .😊
That’s awesome! Great memories!
I've had that sorghum and I love it! It's great on a hot buttered biscuit.
That it is! I love it on a cool fall morning with a little wood fire going in the stove!!!
I just bought some of your sorghum syrup last week at Whole Foods in north GA! I ate lots of my grandmother's biscuits that were dipped in a mixture of softened butter and sorghum syrup - so so good! I was very excited and surprised when I found your syrup at Whole Foods! I'll definitely be buying more for sure!
That’s awesome! It’s definitely making lots of happy people!!!😋😋😋
A family who works for the good of the family . No better values can be taught or had.
My growing up was just that way too. Dad was a carpenter who built homes from the ground up or as needed. Both homes of my youth my dad built on jobs when he needed help I was it at 5-7 yrs old I was holding rafters on my shoulder so dad could nail them in from both sides. Those times built a lifetime bond on helping each other at a phone call away. Dont change a thing your doing it all the biblical way to boot .. God bless y'all
Thanks so much my friend! We’re plugging away!!
There’s nothing like Sorghum on a hot biscuit!!
Absolutely!!
Thank you for the trip back to my childhood! Great
You’re absolutely welcome! That’s what it’s all about!!
I've been to Muddy Pond. Great little place. Agree there is nothing better than sorghum with butter.
Mmmmmmm on a hot biscuit!!
As a boy in Kentucky we would go out to the farm where they had a mule walking in a circle pressing sorghum. I can still smell it and taste it. We would dip some cane in the sorghum that was cooking down and chew on it.
Great video love the music in the background.
I’m extremely happy that I could bring these wonderful memories back to you! These are the best times on earth!
Children working, now that’s a novelty and almost unheard off in this country.
Yes indeed!
Country fried ham with red-eyed gravy grits and biscuits and sorghum syrup yeah it's Southern 😁😆👍🐝😉 I like that good old one horsepower motor 😁
It’s really great here in the south!
i was born in weakley county and i approve this sorghum
Yes it’s really good!
Yeah, Buddy! Teach them to work hard and think. They will be respected in the future.
Very true! Kids these days…… they need lots of this!
I was just in Muddy Pond yesterday. Lovely place and I’ll definitely be back.
Awesome!!!
I was living on Crossville about six years ago. I drove to muddy pond and watched you do this. I love your molasses!!
That is awesome!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures …. What month do you make your molasses? I want to drive there and get some molasses or do you sell it anytime of the year?
I shot this video on October 6. I would highly recommend around that time. The weather is perfect and everything is great.
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures thank you! I’ll be there.
I remember those days of grinding sugar cane and cooking it down to make cane syrup. My family had a small farm we work together and made cane syrup every winter. You would be surprised that people that would come to buy it instead of buying it from a store.
I’m sure it was better than store bought! Plus there’s a good feeling buying from the farmer!
I got to help make some Sorghum Molasses here in southern Indiana, late 69's or early 70's at my grandparents, from feeding the cane into the grinder to skimming and adding wood to the fire. Sure was an experience I'll always remember.
That’s awesome! Great memories!
I lived in Smokies Mountains growing up this always a fall get together ❤. Yummy Yummy
Absolutely!!
My dad always raised sorghum here in Kentucky and had a mule to press it just like y’all. The only thing different was he poured his juice into a great big iron pot that hung over the top of a fire and he had wood paddles that he made for stirring it and it was nice and golden like y’all’s is. I know that’s good sorghum sure is good on a hot biscuit or piece of cornbread. I had a woman argue with me saying you couldn’t make sorghum molasses well we know better lol
😂😂😂 it’s hard to argue with a jar of perfect sorghum!!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures yep, sure is
Sorghum is some good stuff. It has been many years since I have had any. Growing up my mom every year would get a jar of sorghum and that is what we had with our breakfast.
It’s perfect for breakfast!
You have quite an elaborate setup. That is the nicest that I have seen. This video brings back good memories of my childhood. We used to use a mule or donkey to process our molasses. We only had one rectangular shaped vat to boil it down. Thanks for the video.
This setup makes it easier to get consistent results…… thanks!
Me and my grandaughter was just down there about 5 weeks ago. Love going to muddy pond. Love your videos take care brother
That’s awesome! It’s a really great area and friendly people!
My grandma in Ky had 9 son's. She always had sorghum and biscuits for them before school. It's really sweet as I remember. Good video, always something new 👍🙂
Thanks Cheryl!! It’s delicious!!
Man oh man ,l so enjoyed this ,what a great adventure
It was wonderful! Thanks for tagging along!!
Well that was really interesting! I was surprised by how much juice came out of a couple canes. A way better ratio than Maple syrup. It takes 40 gallons of juice to make one gallon of syrup. Thanks for sharing Brother!
I guess the sugar content is pretty high in sorghum…… I’d love to see you try it!
A hundred-fold thanks for this! What an immense pleasure it must have been for you to show your boys this. I know I sure enjoyed it.
It was absolutely wonderful my friend!!!
That sorghum goes good mixed with butter over a hot biscuit. This is one of my favorite videos
Oh yes it’s amazing!!
Howdy McGie. A GREAT find this afternoon. A super video and thanks! I was the age of the younguns there when I ran across my first sorghum operation. It was in Cleburne County, Alabama. A guy down the road made charcoal and that's what powered the pans. My father knew the guy and had a knack for getting the good stuff...some of his private stock. Ha. That's when I learned that no other syrup would do for proper pancakes. Later we got our sorghum syrup from Sand Mountain Alabama. Again, it paid to know the maker. His regular stock always tasted a bit overcooked. A man I knew up there knew the man and got some of his 'private stock'...the stuff he kept in his closet. A heck of a find.... a couple of quarts. Well, having finally run out of that I went looking. Looks like syrup making on Sand Mountain is a lost art these days...or at least they don't advertise. I took a chance on Muddy Pond from Amazon early this year and I gotta say it's as good as it gets. I felt super blessed to run across that. They don't have much competition. All the festivals around my part are played out. Can't find the stuff in stores.
I was completely amazed that my quart came from those pans on your video. Really. Now that's old timey. No wonder it was so good. Ya done good with your vid. Got up from the TV to come over here and send you a thankee!
Norm and Vicky
Wow that means so much to me! I’m extremely honored that I was invited to make this video! I’m personal friends with all of them up there, and several of them go to church with me!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures Even better, the church thing. For me it was great making the connection of that super excellent syrup and the maker. I know you'll be passing along all the kudos you get from fans.
I remember as a kid in Youngsville, Louisiana picking cane off the side of the road when they harvested the sugar cane! We chewed it the same!
It’s sweet and juicy!
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Keep pressing forward my friend!!
i remember as a kid driving up from Cookeville to Monterey and then out to Muddy Pond for molasses candy and checking out the Amish community and culture
It’s amazing that it’s still in operation!
Now that's some good stuff Pappy! I was raised up eating sorghum on biscuits everyday for breakfast thanks to my sweet, sweet grandma!!!
We also had fried potato pancakes, gravy, sausage, bacon, and eggs, pear preserves, toast..... 🙂👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Oh my goodness you were definitely not suffering!!😂😂😂
I remember doing this at my grandpas farm in the 79s
Hard work… good sweetenen!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures yes it was long days and hard work. We run a feed mill back in the day.
So cool to watch. I helped a friend around Dover, Arkansas setup a sorghum press. He had the table built and the press was old but in good condition. We cut, and fitted the boom poles. I never got to see it in operation. Thanks for sharing this in such detail.
I’m in Dover hunting right now!
We just went to a sorghum festival not far from our house this past Saturday. I bought a pint while I was there, I love that stuff on some homemade biscuits!
This is the essence of fall! Just as much as pumpkins & corn shocks!!
Grew up in Maple country in the Catskills of New York, the production is so similar, but in warmer weather. Looks like a suger shed is the same regardless of latitude...sweet and wonderful on biscuits and pancakes.
Absolutely! Some sweet goodness!!😋😋😋
Love your presentation.
Thanks!
Who remembers cane patch syrup in the can
Very cool video brother! I also love the music playing in this video 📹 great job
Thanks brother! It’s been years since I’ve done this!
What wonderful teaching..!!.. I always find your videos so informative...thank you !!!
You’re most welcome!!
Very interesting process and video Micah! The old press there, didnt see too many slots that connect to computer cards or cables. Life sure seemed simple back in time, despite the hard work and long days. Hope you and your family all have a Great day! -Bob...
Thanks Bob! You too!!
No there’s no wire hookup here!!😂😂😂
I love seeing things like this. Thanks Micah for sharing!
You’re absolutely welcome brother!!
Your a blessed man with boys. Good job. Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it. From my hill top in. Sc.
I’m a very blessed man! This was so much fun!
Caleb sure is growing up way too fast. All of your boys are amazing and hard workers!
You got that right! If I don’t get these videos now, I’ll be kicking myself in just a few years!!!
Wow Micah this was amazing to see and learn about. Hard working boys. Very informative share on this Sorghum. Nice to see all the details from the picking to it being made at the Muddy Pond Tennessee. Wonderful to see at the shop all those desserts made from it too. Lovely share my friend. Thanks so much Irene.😊👌🌿
You’re absolutely welcome my friend!
Thank you, great video !!❤❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well done 🐎
Thanks my matey!!
Our cousin made cane syrup the same way He used a mule then cooked it in an old oval shaped pot about 6-8ft across wish I had that pot and grinder today that was a jewel 🤙🏻🙏🏼❤️ Daddy would get us several Quarts and it was so good🤙🏻🤠 Granny Peebles made buttermilk biscuits and I would poke a big hole in a biscuit with my finger and pour syrup in the hole and umm umm good😂🙏🏼🤙🏻
That is awesome!
My dad loved it. You are right. If you are not used to it- it is strong.
It took me a while to get used to it…… but as you know, I have a very wide range of of what’s acceptable to my palate!😂😂😂
I remember my aunt Helen getting her hand ran through a horse or mule drawn cane press. She didn't lose her fingers but they was only like an inch long and an inch round for the rest of her life on her right hand. After the doctors had done all they could. I miss her. And her cooking
Oh my that was rough!
Very interesting. Thank you!
You’re absolutely welcome!
Sugar cane factories use the bagasse (leftover fibrous pulp) as fuel to heat the cane juice. Sugar cane is probably a thicker stalk than sorghum. Perhaps about as tall. The fields are usually burned to clear off the leaves and make it easier to harvest. But once you cut the stems you have to crush and squeeze within a few days otherwise the sugar content will start to drop and it begins to ferment. You can cut a piece of cane and chew it and spit it out like sorghum but it being so thick, it's also best to split it into thinner pieces.
That’s interesting! Never have I seen it done!
Nice looking young crew of workers you've got there. Really enjoyed this.
I’m a very happy dad!
That was awesome, I have seen sorghum pressed with belt driven tractor equipment before, and I don't remember it being heated by steam, but that was cool to see! Thanks again for the great content.
You’re absolutely welcome brother!!
I have made sorghum molasses when l was a youngester
The good old memories!!
Great video.
Interesting.
That’s awesome!
We eat sorghum here in the Mid-Atlantic in Western Marylands Mennonite & Amish country. As for silage corn,Sudan,Sudex,Sorghum all do well interseeded with corn,makes good feed. Hit it right and the dry matter,sugar & proteins are high. Cows milk good on it.
That’s awesome! Definitely sounds like a lot of great feed!
I've been to Muddy Pond many times. Always liked that stop when we were in the area.
It’s a great area!!
I'm from California we were in Smoky Mountain area Tennessee last year came across a man making syrup me and my wife liked it wish I could have brought some we were flying couldn't bring any home
Oh my! You probably saw a very authentic sorghum process! That’s awesome!
Another one way over the fence!!!!! Fantastic!!!!! Thank you, sir,....
Thanks so much Jorge!!! So much fun!!!
My parents would always, since the 1970s, pick up Sorghum from Muddy Pond!! Not sure if it's y'all's place, but it was from Muddy Pond TN!
There’s a pretty good chance it was!
very positive move for Socs God bless
God bless!
A most excellent video , obviously several people deserve congrats for there efforts here !
Yes indeed! A very good group of folks!
Another very interesting video
Thanks brother!
Great Video! Love the group effort!
That was a lot of fun!
Nicely done
Thanks!
I grew up in Jamestown not to far from muddy pond, remember going there with my parents and grandma. Loved going up there watching them do that. Been aiming to taking my young uns up there soon lol Great video!
The kids will absolutely love it! They can feed cane through the same press in this video!!
I've only had molasses made from sugar cane, I was about 15 the first time we made it. Homemade squeeze ran off a allis Chalmers side shaft pto. Our cook
Sorghum has a very different flavor!
I remember making as a boy. I Love the taste.
It’s absolutely amazing!
We experienced this last year when we first moved here, it’s very very similar to how we make maple syrup in New England.
Awesome!!! Yes it’s fun! And delicious! 😋😋😋
Just south of Harrisburg Arkansas about 5 miles is the old Parker Homestead and every October they have a two day Arts and Craft Festival one of the main attractions is the sourghum production the last time I was there last there was a man who brought his mule and when crushing the mule never stopped un less the men feeding the cane did.
Oh my mules are much better! That’s what we used to have!
I really like watching how you do things. I just subscribed and look forward to the knowledge and inspiration. I'm on the S. end of the Plateau. I've played around growing sorghum but I don't have equipment so I've chewed the stalk, tried to "cook" the sugar out and save the seed heads for my chickens and goats.
It’s definitely fun to play with! I want to grow a patch and see how good it is in silage!
Pretty cool. Have not had Sorghum syrup but I'm gonna have to find some genuine Tennessee Sorghum syrup.
Check out Muddy Pond Sorghum!
Great video as always
That’s awesome Micah! We are pushing some of our sorghum silage right now! Not much but we got some we need to do!!!
That’s awesome! Is it a sweeter silage? Seems like it would be!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures couldn’t give you a for sure answer but the cows tear it up so maybe!
Just saw you guys here and ordered a quart Hmmm Hmmm cant wait
Oh my goodness you are in for a treat!
I have been to Muddy Pond. Great place to visit and awesome butter.
Absolutely amazing! Great people too!
Great video! Anytime I can tour something and nit have to travel 1000 miles to get there is a good time. Have a great day too brother!
Exactly! I’m not a road runner!😅
Quite a few years ago..there was a tractor pull and show at Michigan City Ms…some of your family would come and make ice cream…please tell them hello from Judy Clark…
Wow that is very interesting! Thank you!
Woo-hoo!! That was exciting 😄 and educational to boot.
I knew for a fact that you would love this!! I’m extremely excited that I got to make this video!!!🤠🤠🤠
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures you betcha. This is the stuff I love to learn about. Thanks Micah
My Pappy’s dessert after every supper. Fond memories of his chin dripping it while we tried not to giggle.
😂😂😂 wonderful memories!
Nothing like Sorghum! It's great stuff! I grow, press, & cook down my own (enough to make about a gallon each year)... I plant mine in cups early and give mine a head start. We pressed ours last month...
Wow that’s awesome! How many cups make a gallon?
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures (more than 16 lol) I try to plant about 100 starters,give or take a few. I plant the "Tennessee Sweet Sorghum". I bought my first seed at Baker Creek Seeds, Now I just replant from my seed buds.
Great video
Thanks Doc!
I have always loved sorghum nothing better on a hot biscuit . I also use sorghum in my ginger cookies
Oh my goodness yes!
Cool video thank you
You’re absolutely welcome!
We raise it here in Indiana too, so it's not just a southern thing.
Indiana is almost in the south 😃
It's not just a southern thing I live in the middle of Minnesota and a lot of us in the great white north love it also great video 👍👍
Oh that is a surprise to me! A very sweet sticky surprise!!!😋😋😋
Don't get no better than warm cornbread with real butter and sorghum syrup 😁😁😁
Agreed 100%!
ken... Norm from Alabama. Now that is a surprise! But do you guys do GRITS? Ha!
@@OvGraphics well yes we do just goes to show you don't have to be from the south to be a redneck 🤣😂😎👍👍
That's awesome, have never seen that, nor tasted it but I am going to try it😊😄
Awesome! It’s sweetly unique!
I aint Amish but grew up with all that.
Awesome! Lots of people did back in the day!
“Pomace” is a general term for the pressed pulp, skins, seeds and such from fruits and vegetables - like cider or your sorghum pulp. It comes from the Latin word for “apple”!
Now that’s educational!!! Thanks so much!
I grew up in the Algood Rickman area and we helped our neighbors make sorghum every year through the late 70s . We called the leavings something else. I can't remember what, though. We feed them to our cattle. I've been up to Muddy Pond many times as a kid with my grandpa. He would have a saddle made or something else like that. They put real craftsmanship in everything they did. I noticed you guys dove hunting recently when I was visiting my son. Hope you did well. Thanks for the video.
Love it I am from north idaho
I imagine it’s very cold up there! We’ve been experiencing the coldest weather in 25 years here in Tennessee!