Event Details
Saturday, Jan 12, 2013
Raising Cane: The 3rd Annual Cane Syrup tasting event
Time: 9:00 am til 4:00 pm
Location: Pioneer Florida Museum and Village, 15602 Pioneer Museum Road, Dade City, FL
Description: Join us at the Pioneer Florida Museum & Village for our third annual Cane Syrup festival. Sponsored by the Southern Syrup-makers Association with the co-operation of University of Florida IFAS Extension, the Museum will host a traditional canesyrup making demonstration, making syrup the old fashioned way. Using a technique that has been practiced for several hundred years, volunteers grind sugar cane into juice using a mule or tractor powered mill and then boil the juice into cane syrup. The process takes approximately six hours to complete with four of those hours reserved for the cooking process. Once completed, the syrup is then for sale in the Museum’s gift shop as a fundraiser. Cane syrup was a staple of the pioneer’s diet and remains a favorite among life long residents of the South.
Charlie Kirksey, the head of the Museum’s syrup operation, says that “eighty gallons of juice will make eight to ten gallons of syrup”. Kirksey is also quick to point out that the Museum’s syrup mill is home to several examples of early grinders and a cooking kettle that dates back to the Civil War. He also says that he and other volunteers are “dedicated to preserving this old t
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