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Show 12 — For the week of November 21, 2008 ST. GEORGE NEIGHBORHOODS The Spectrum — www.thespectrum.com The sweet taste of Jud Burkett / The Spectrum -Buzz Shroyer, left, and Mike Eagar feed sorghum stalks through the mill while Mike Brooking leads his jenny, Yodi, as she turns the mill's arm Friday in Santa Clara. ™ St. George man touts benefits of what was once a dietary staple BY LISA LARSON larson@thespectrum.com ST, GEORGE. — Last Friday George friends time; to Mike Eagar of St. took family and on a trip back in a place with a don-: key, a mill and something own as sorghum. ‘A lot of people say, ‘sorghum what?’ but 50 years ago it was a real staple, said Lee Eagar, Mike’s brother who came from Las Vegas to: join in the-event reminis- - cent of their days growing boiled down to create a _up in Leeds. thick syrup that tastes like Sorghum looks similar to a cross between honey and molasses. Back in the day sugar cane that is grown, harvested and then pressed ~sorghum was used as the. in a sorghum mill to retrieve main sweetener in everythe sweet liquid from the ~ thing from baked goods to carie.- The -liquid is then coffee. During Mike and Lee's youth a number of sorghum mills were in operation and Mike remembers when the whole Hurricane Valley was filled with the aroma of sore See CANE on pg. 13 |