Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill in Monterey, Tenn., is still using a wood-fired locomotive boiler to cook its sorghum juice into ...

The fire driving Mark Guenther's 33-year-old locomotive boiler raged outside his steam-filled production room. Making sorghum syrup is not cool work, even on the first day the Monterey, Tenn. heat had ...

Sorghum is one of the world's oldest cultivated grains, domesticated around 8,000 B.C. and grown in Africa, India, and the Middle East. Bred and well adapted to necessity, it spread across the regions ...

This is a traditional Southern sweetener, made from the juice of sorghum cane that has been boiled until it reaches a syrup consistency. John and Emma Guenther, who live in the small Tennessee ...

In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...

Nashville Craft Distillery makes a spirit from Muddy Pond sorghum, a sweet syrup made traditionally in the hills of Tennessee. Old Glory Distilling Co. in Clarksville sources from local farms for the ...

CHICAGO — The potential appeal of sorghum to consumers seeking gluten-free products and the grain’s versatility for bakers and food manufacturers seeking flour alternatives were the subject of a ...

Not so long ago, many farming families in Southern Appalachia celebrated the long-anticipated arrival of the harvest season with a special treat: fresh sorghum syrup. Today, thousands still flock to ...

It can be made similarly to maple syrup in batch pans, or with a continuous flow pan for larger operations. Sweet sorghum syrup. To some, this liquid foodstuff is a bit of mystery. What is it? How is ...