Making palm sugar
This lady and her daughter are making palm sugar tablets. Circlets of palm leaf are filled with thick syrup and more water is heated out until the tablets are solid. They are then packaged up for sale.
To get the amount of palm sugar shown here is about 10 hours work up a palm tree collecting the sugar and more time spent reducing the syrup. You can buy about 30 of these tablets for $1
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Making palm sugar
This lady and her daughter are making palm sugar tablets. Circlets of palm leaf are filled with thick syrup and more water is heated out until the tablets are solid. They are then packaged up for sale.
To get the amount of palm sugar shown here is about 10 hours work up a palm tree collecting the sugar and more time spent reducing the syrup. You can buy about 30 of these tablets for $1
© Susannah Relf All Rights Reserved
Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited