| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Reliford molasses making brings back memories 'I am sure that many of the older folks in Columbia will remember my dad's , Otha Flatt's, molasses for sure. His was the real deal.' Von Flatt Price Comments re photo 47178 Sorghum making time at Weed Adair Co KY By Von Price Oh the good old days! Remember them well. My dad, Otha Flatt, used to make molasses every year. We raised our own cane. We had the old mill that you feed the cane stalks thru to remove the juice; had a mule that went round and round and oh that poor mule would just keep going and going. Then the juice would be put in the box as it was called, and you would cook it over an open pit fire for hours and hours, and as the juice would boil, you had to skim the top off of it. This was like a foam. You had to sit there and keep skimming until they were ready to take off, as they would say. My dad would taste them after they would get to a golden color and the foam would be an amber. We would put them in gallon jars to sell. After all of the molasses were filled in the jars, the kids (myself included) would take a cane stalk and scoop the bottom of the box. Oh, let me tell you, they were so good! A lot of people would add clear syrup to them; but my dad never added any thing. His was the real deal. I am sure that many of the older folks in Columbia will remember my dad's molasses for sure. He always took so much pride in making the light golden molasses. He always said that if they were real dark that they would be strong. That it was from not keeping the box skimmed, while they were cooking. It certainly is a lost art. But good molasses just can't be beat with some hot homemade biscuits and butter for sure. Just like Grandpa Joes says, "yum, yum". Just wish that I was near so that I could purchase some. Thank you, Tonya Loy from Off, for letting me remember another childhood memory. - Von Price, Louisville, KY. This story was posted on 2012-10-21 10:50:26
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Local History:
Silent City Cemetery Walking Tour is October 29, 2012 Rev. Clifford Spurlock family: Life at Brightshade, KY History with Mike Watson: The Dug Hill A Scene in the Life of Colonel William Casey, Pioneer Mark Silas Tackitt: A Royse descendant who's his own grandpa More to Col. Casey legacy: Wife Jane deserves remembrance Old Coddger sends Google coordinates for Royse Cemetery Post office WPA mural was in Columbia, KY - not in Georgia Memories: Exploring Dug Hill and climbing it on bicycles One Man's Love for His Family and Ancestral Community View even more articles in topic Local History |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
