Making Sugar for Ambassador's House - Holiday Villa with Pool to rent in Tobago


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Making sugar the old-fashioned way in Tobago - Our latest project at Windy Edge, to see if we could make our own sugar
The sugar canes are grown at the bottom of the garden. Lesleyann's husband Prince provided the original plants and Lesleyann, Soldier and Mr Smith tended them carefully throughout the year until they were ready to harvest this Spring.
Now Mr Smith cuts the canes, it is tough, hot work.
Lesleyann and Gareth carry the canes up to the waiting truck, also hot work as they are full of sugar juice and very heavy.
Gabriele takes the load of cane over to Les Coteaux to Brother Taylor and his vintage sugar crusher.
The tin bath is prepared with a muslin curtain to filter the juice, and after a prayer the machine is started up.
The juice pours out like a waterfall into the bath below the crusher as the canes are pushed through by first one person then another.
It is hot work and when the last cane is through we are all revived with a drink of fresh sugar juice, delicious!
It is excellent quality and thanks to Brother Taylor and all our helpers we have nearly 20 gallons to take home.
Lastly, Lesleyann and Charlotte boil down the sugar juice and make lovely West Indian 'wet sugar'