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Slave Plantation - using a sugar cane crusher.

 

Cane, resembling very stringy rhubarb, is passed through the cane crusher 3 times to extract the liquid. This is then boiled to leave a sugary residue for use in rum, etc. Surprisingly it is not sickly sweet to drink in its raw state.

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Uploaded on July 28, 2011
Taken on August 8, 2003