Show GRAPE MADE TO DO SUGAR DUTY may be called turks maple rully fully six she months before the now new england farmer brushes up his sugar camp and nd begins hanging his palls on the fugar maple trees the turkish villager in the grape growing province of Is producing sugar for home consumption by it a very similar process says saya herman A krelder kreider of the american board of commissioners tor for foreign missions in istanbul turkey gathering as much as SOO pounds of gropes grapes from a single vine the growers fill a natural rock wine press to a depth of 2 feet and sprinkle on this mass of grapes a coating of crushed limestone from the surrounding hills while two or three men tramp the press for several hours the juice flows into a 75 gallon copper kettle which never cools from the beginning to the end of the season after the first boiling the juice Is dipped out as rapidly as possible into one or more wooden troughs having plugged holes at various heights i in the end board the grosser impurities puri ties are here precipitated by the action of the limestone and at the pro proper per moment the hired Ipe pek kinez mez specialist locally spoken of as the professor draws out the apper and later the second plug allowing the cleared liquid to now flow back into the original kettle during the second boiling the surface impurities are skimmed off and i at the proper stage the Is ladled out into empty kerosene tins or into small wooden drums especially made for the purpose here after some hours the sets to the consistency of very thick molasses in which state it Is transported and stored stared the market price of varies according to the abundance of the grape harvest but the best Is usually available at about on one third the price of granulated sugar A still cheaper quality used by the producers themselves Is the product of a special pressing of the shells and husks at the end of a run this being done by means of an antiquated iye type of screw press the presses and boilers are permanent establishments in the villages and are operated day and night during the grape harvest season bu but t the kettles are so expensive that they are owned only by city men w who ho rent them to the village press owners for the season A special chewing sweet Is prepared by introducing starch in the course of the second boiling while still soft this Is painted in a ter very y thin coat on blankets and left on the housetop to dry to a quite leathery consistency blissfully ignorant of physical laws and chemical equations the villager pours into his a liberal portion of superstition and incantations the itinerant drummer Is on tap night and flay day during the season reason to ann announce ounce to the community that hadji babas run Is finished and husseyn aghas first kettle Is boiling equally depended upon even if less evident are the muttered prayers and of the village patriarchs who gather around the steaming kettles to swap yarns of the bumper crops ot of history boston globe |