Sugar ready to sell. Balls are crumbled into tea, used in baking, or eaten straight as a sweet treat.
Completed balls cooling and hardening
Then they must work quickly to form the hot "dough" into individual balls before it cools and hardens
As it cools, the syrup is scraped
Syrup is cooled in a large stone basin
...into a malleable "dough"
Stoking the underground oven with dried, leftover cane scraps
The syrup is ready when it is bright amber
Moving the syrup to the final vat
Sugar ready to sell. Balls are crumbled into tea, used in baking, or eaten straight as a sweet treat.
Sugar ready to sell. Balls are crumbled into tea, used in baking, or eaten straight as a sweet treat.
Sugar ready to sell. Balls are crumbled into tea, used in baking, or eaten straight as a sweet treat.
See photo in original gallery.