In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...

Almost 40 years ago, residents of Montgomery County started recording the history of this rural area near Hot Springs. That group included Dick Whittington, whose ancestors helped settle the region.

On an unseasonably blustery day in Mills River, three generations — and a couple of headstrong mules — bent their heads to the business of making sorghum molasses. For Mary Fowler, one of the ...

MONTEREY, Tenn. (WATE) – For the past 50 years, the Guenther family of the Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill has been serving up sorghum providing sweet treats to all who visit them in Middle Tennessee. With ...

SOPHIA — Years ago, in the rural South, the clock would alarm in late October and early November to let the farmers know it was time to make molasses. Summer crops were harvested and the weather, in ...

This is a traditional Southern sweetener, made from the juice of sorghum cane that has been boiled until it reaches a syrup consistency. John and Emma Guenther, who live in the small Tennessee ...

There's nothing quite like tasting Southern syrup to transport you to a slow, warm afternoon, where time seems to drift as ...

The fire driving Mark Guenther's 33-year-old locomotive boiler raged outside his steam-filled production room. Making sorghum syrup is not cool work, even on the first day the Monterey, Tenn. heat had ...

Today is Rosh Hashanah, which marks the start of a new year on the Hebrew calendar. To ring in 5775, Jews across the U.S. will swipe apple slices through honey, a custom that's supposed to signify ...

At Christmastime, we love anything with the words old-fashioned attached to it. A holiday ingredient that is truly from days gone by is sorghum, also called molasses, or sorghum molasses. But just to ...

Move over maple syrup. Here comes sorghum. This sweet and fragrant syrup is strictly a Southern product, and aficionados claim it is as delicious and wholesome as the much-revered maple syrup. This is ...