Prairie Sugar
Submitted by Susan on September 25, 2015 – 8:20 amNo Comment
If you’re wandering Minnesota this weekend, Road Trips Foodies, consider joining the farmhands at Oliver Kelley Farm, 15788 Kelley Farm Road, Elk River, Minnesota, as they make prairie sugar, also known as sorghum molasses.
You’ll help strip the leaves off the sorghum canes, press the canes through a horse-powered press to extract the juice and stir the juice as it boils down to make a sweet, syrupy molasses.
As a reward, you’ll enjoy a sweet treat of molasses confections such as gingerbread and molasses candy.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday (September 26 and 27, 2015).
