| Show GRAPE MADE TO TODO TODO TODO DO SUGAR DUTY May ray Be Called Turks Turk's Maple Fully six months before the New England farmer brushes up his sugar camp and begins hanging his palls pails on the maple sugar trees the tho Turkish Turkish Turk Turk- ish villager In the growing grape-growing province provInce pro pro- I vince of Is producing sugar sugar su su- suI su- I gar aar for tor h home me consumption by n a very similar pro process says Herman A. A Kreider Krelder of ot the American board boord of commissioners for foreign missions In Jn Istanbul Turkey I Gathering rIng as much as ns pounds of ot grapes from a 0 single vine the growers Oil fill a n rock natural wine press to a n depth of ot 2 feet and sprinkle on this mass of ot grapes gropes n a coating of crushed 1 limestone from the surrounding surrounding surround surround- ing hills While two or three men tramp the press for tor several vernl hours the tho Juice flows Into a n gallon 75 copper kettle which never ne cools from the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning to the end of ot the season After the first boiling the Juice Is 18 dipped out ns as rapidly as possible Into Into into In In- to one or more wooden troughs having bar hav ing tag plugged holes at nt various heights In the end board The grosser Impurities Im lm- Impurities are here precipitated by the action of the limestone and at the proper moment the hired specialist locally spoken of as The Professor ProCessor draws out the upper and later the second 1 plug allowing the cleared cleare 1 liquid to flow back Into the original kettle During the second boiling the surface surface sur sur- face Impurities are skimmed off ocr and at the thc proper stage tho the isn Is ladled n out Into empty ker kerosene sene tins I or Into small woo wooden drums especially especial especial- ly y made for the purpose Here after after aft aft- er cr some hours the sets to the consistency of or very thick molasses In which state It Is transported am and stored store 1 The market price of ot varies accor according to the abundance of ot the grape harvest but the best 1 Is usually available at nt about one third 1 the tho price of or granulated sugar A still cheaper quality used by the pro producers ers themselves Is the pro product of a special pressing of ot the shells and husks at nt the en end 1 of ot a run mn this being beIng being be be- ing done one by means of ot an antiquated type of ot screw press The presses and boilers are permanent penna perma- nent establishments In the villages and are operated day and night durIng durIng dur dur- Ing fag the grape harvest season but th the kettles are so e expensive that they are owned only by city men who ren rear them to the village press owners fo for forthe forthe the season A special chewing sweet Is ls prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared by Introducing starch In th the course of or the second 1 boiling While still soft this Is painted In a avery avery avery very thin coat on blankets and lefon left lef lefton on the housetop to dry to n a quite leathery consistency Blissfully Ignorant of ot physical laws and chemical equations the thc vIllager village pours Into his a liberal portion portion por por- tion of ot superstition and Incantations The Itinerant drummer drumme Is Js on tap night and day during th the season to the community that Had Ha Hadji j Babas Baba's run Is finished and 1 Husse Husseyn n Aghas Agha's first kettle Is boiling bonIng Equally depended upon even 1 If less Jess ess evident ore are the muttered prayers pray pray- ers rs and o of the tho village patriarchs who gather around the steaming teaming kettles to swap yarns of ofilia the ilia bumper crops of or history Boston Globe |
