The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-05-01


boiled down to 1850 Fahrenhsit will be
reduced 70 something or or twelve gallons,
or enough to fill one of thasagar uioulds.
When the days boiling is completed,
pat the eoptents Of tab No 4 into su-
gar moulior keg, having previously Plug
gCd the hole. Set it in a warm place, in
no cas-, colder than $50 Fahrenheit, If
TO- or SO so much the better. This
completes the day u work. !.
When cold, tho next day, it will be 3
solid mass Of eryssalizod sugar Then
withdraw the stopper, set the mould on
an earthen pot or pail; in from four to
seven lavs the molasses will have ceased
to drain cut; then turn over the mould
upon a clean board or table, strike the
rim smartly once or twice, and the sugar
win slide from the mould in a solid mass
Break it up with shovel, and it il fit
for use The contents of this mould
should be from forty to fftv pounds Of
dry, yellow sugar, and bout four gallons
of excellent molasses W Il have dripp d
from it into the jar
If preferred, the sugar making may
here terminate; but, as the purifying
power Of the bone black diter is not yet
exhausted, and as the whole labor and ex-
pense Of preparation have been already
incurred, it will b. best to continue at
least second and third day.
Secoud day--The process will be a
repetition of the first days work, and
the result viii be to til an additional sn-
gar mould or keg.
Third Day-The process wiz he rep
ctition of the above, but the alter being
now exhausted, after the third day, it will
be necessary to change the bone black.
Before emptying the filter, or stopping
the tn I'd days work, however, pass cold
water through the filter, which. so long as
it runs sweet enough to mark % Beaume,
is to be added to the juice of TIE upper
| Joints, Of which we are about to speak.
Eo5asscs.
At the close of the sugar making, pass
through the u,ill the upper joints Of the
canes, previously laid aside. Add to the
juice the liquid portion Of scum in third
y il, together with the washinrs of the
filter, of tub No. /, and Of other utensils.
Neutralize the acid with milk OF lime,
and test with litmus paper as before.
Clarity twice with eggs, (or blood, oi
milk, but omit, if preferred, the filter
ing through bone black Boil finally on
" to 22so Fahrenheit, instead of 23S<
Fahrenheit, as for sugar.
| The product, when cool, will be about
eighteen gallons of excollen. syrup
From three days work, of two hundreC
and forty gallons Of juice-from say tw'
thousand canes--in all there should be
total product Of about one hundred ant
twenty-five pounds % one hundred AM
fifty pounds Of sugar, and twenty -sevot
gallons molasses.
This operation being on a very saial
scale, and with a hand mill, is carried O.
under great disadvantages The same Il
Dor on a larger scale would produce mucl
greater results. The process and routin
here given will answer for larger opera
tions. 1t would be b3ttor, how 2ver, es
peeially If the quantity is increased, t
have the second or eraporating kettle G
greater length and breadth, and as sha
low as possible to expedite the evapors
ton. 4 larger aud longer bone bae
filter will also be needed,
Either sugar or molasses of good qua
ity, but Of darker color, may BE- made b
the above process, emitting the bon
black. II it be desired to make syru
only, stop the boiling at 22S' Fahrer
hcit.
If white sugaris desired, the follow
ing additional process will be neeesscr,
On the third day after the sugar has bee
, put into the moalds, the greater part {
the molasses having drained fromlt, scraF
off, with a knife, the crust oh top of 81
, gar, leaving smooth granulated surtac
, following little to the center. Moiste
! the scrapings with cold water into a thi
paste, aud replace them on the suga
, Next day dissolve enough refined suga
a the whittier the better, in six quarts of W
/. ter, to make solution marking, whe
= boiling hot. go Beaume Pour one inc
; in depth OF this solution, cold, on top
. the sugar On each Of the two followir
| days, put Oh a similar quantity. Aft
e the sugar ceases to drain, knock out Il
loaf; the upper portion viii be white, Il
/ lower part light yellow. Divide the 10
and crush each portion separately.
. liz by any mistake, or carelcssness,
= burning or Overlooking, or by the imnl
|, tnrity of the canes, the molasses do
= . not begin to drain from the mould
. tho second or third day, run an awl,
/ large nail, or other sharp iron instrumer
: into the hole at the foot Of the mou
il some two or three inches, and then wit
). draw it. If, after ten days longer in t
r. warmest place you have, it still fails
run, put the contents into kettle, adt
. little water, heat it to 22So FahronAe
i and it will make good syrup.
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