Yes, you are right. Since syrup is made from sugar, one would have to get the sugar from sugar cane. I have seen sugar cane growing in Hawaii & in other warm..year around places. You were lucky that you were a young, large family. My husband had 11 brothers & sisters. His Mother died at the age of 39 with baby #12. She wanted a Baker's Dozens, but never made it. The 12th baby was stillborn. I was curious about the name, etc. b/c no one knew if the family had named the child. I don't think they could afford to have a funeral for it, so they may have taken "him" straight from the hospital to a mortuary. I finally located the baby by finding the funeral home & they had record of where they had taken the child to bury "him". "He" was buried in "Babyland" & since he had no stone, the bushes had grown over his gravesite. I talked to the caretaker & all his book showed was "Baby Boy LaBonte" & there was no name. Most of my husband's family had to work. They raised their own hens & turkeys. They also had a good size garden. Paul, my husband, b/c he was the oldest boy, he started working in Junior High & he worked 2 jobs all through those 2 yrs. Later after his Mother passed away, he started working in a local grocery story. Around 5-6 yrs after his Mother passed, his Father passed. Paul was in charge of finding homes for all the kids who needed family. I won't go into it all...but he was able to put all the kids with their relatives. His two older sisters had started to work years before & they worked in Chicago in the factory where their Father worked. Rosie, b/c she was the oldest, was asked to stop school so she could go to work. Then about 8 months later, Angie said she wanted to stop school too. Rosie was very upset b/c she had wanted to go to school to become a nurse. Well, since she had stopped High School for 8 months, she didn't want to go back b/c she said she had been out too long. The rest of the children did get an education..except for Peg, who I think got married at a fairly early age. Well, that's enough of family for now. ~Jen in AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > Molasses is made from sorghum stalks....I reckon syrup is made from sugar > cane. IT grows from cuttings, according to what I read...Sorghum grows > from little round seed. TN is too cold for cane to grow. > > There was no choice in putting kids to work...it was work or starve. We > were a large family, but a young family, so we had to work. Our folks > both came from big farming families and we were treated like they'd been > treated growing up. Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:54:19 -0700 "Jen LaBonte" <AZJen@npgcable.com> > writes: >> Jeannie T., So Sorghum is basically syrup? I have heard of it before, > but this is the first time I have ever heard of how it was made. > ____________________________________________________________ > Hate Carrying Pet Food? > Now you don't have to! Pet sites deliver to your door for free! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cce4d2bd27005bd0am06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message