A sweet hobby: Enderle family has kept the sorghum molasses tradition alive for generations
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Ralph Enderle of New Hamburg, Missouri, has been making sorghum molasses on his 80-acre spread for almost four decades. It's a yearly cycle his father followed, and his father before him. But beyond that, Enderle said he isn't sure how far back the practice goes. "You can't really make a whole lot of money by it, but you keep an old tradition alive," he said. In May, Enderle plants the cereal grain on a part of his farm he doesn't rent out, and when it's ready to harvest, he and others chop down the stalks, strip them, load them on a truck and haul them a little past his house to a special milling area.
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