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Transcription: [00:30:34]
{Unknown Speaker} {Female Voice}
Okay, so you're cooking your syrup, and how, now you said the skimmings are important? What do you--

[00:30:39]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Uh, well the skimmings, that's the old black stuff that rises when you're starting to boil. You skim that off. That's what I call the niceness in it.

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{Female Voice}
That's what you call what? Is it--

[00:30:50]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
The niceness. Haha.

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{Female Voice}
Niceness?

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{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
That's what I call the niceness.

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{Female Voice}
Ah, ah [[Understanding]]

[00:30:55]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
It don't look good. The old people long time ago used to keep it a few days and put it in a steel and run it all and make moonshine out of it.

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{Female Voice}
Ah, the skimmings, huh.

[00:31:04]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
I never did that.

[00:31:05]
{Female Voice}
Yeah, yeah. So it doesn't look good, so it's--

[00:31:08]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Nope. To me it don't look good. But I'm gonna feed it to the hogs.

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{Female Voice}
And then what, how do you know when the syrup is getting ready? When it's finished?

[00:31:15]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Well, this been boiling since yesterday. It flaked the least I ever saw, but it come out good syrup that I just cooked enough, I can tell when it gets syrup.

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{Female Voice}
Mm-hmm [[Affirming]]

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{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
That's the number one question that people ask me when they come to my place is how do you know when it gets to syrup? I tell 'em I reckon I just, it's nature, I just cooked enough I can look at it and tell.

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{Unknown Speaker} {Second Male Voice}
Most of the time it'll fold in the kettle. And you can tell by that it won't--

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[[Cross talk]]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
When it starts to make syrup, it'll go back down in the kettle to the juice level. You can pile far to it, but it'll go right back down to the juice level when it starts making syrup.

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{SILENCE}

[00:31:53]
{Female Voice}
Looks like we're gonna get a little rain out here. Um, when you, when you're done with the syrup, then what do you use it for around your house?

[00:32:00]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Well, we use it to mostly sop with biscuits. Sometimes we use it on pancakes, good on pecan pies, sweet like potato pies, use syrup for sweetening.

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{Female Voice}
So you use it for sopping biscuits primarily?

[00:32:14]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Primarily, it's to sop with biscuits. Home-made biscuits.

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{Female Voice}
Does it make a good breakfast?

[00:32:19]
{Second Male Voice}
Makes a fine breakfast.

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{Female Voice}
[[Laughing]]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Yes warm sauce to go with it you'll just eat me

{Female Voice}
Use it on anything else?

{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Well you can make a, well they used to make sweet bread out of it back when I was a kid

{Female Voice}
uh huh

{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
during the hoover days yep

{Female Voice}
and during the hoover days. How much would you, how much would you use, your family.

{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
uhhh Id say 25 gallons to 40 gallons in that range about that much for a family

{Female Voice}
mhmm
How bout you Mr. Pavern how do you use it
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{unknown speaker}
well uh use basically just like gray says uh we don't of course we don't eat and I'll eat 45 gallons a year, or you know my family will,
{SILENCE}
this whole thing but uh, I'd like to say one more thing about uh this whole thing cane drying this tray dish for our home state for years and years now and uh used to whenever I was a real young boy you know we'd have can rinding it was given out you know and uh people families would come together as much as 10 12 15 miles apart and it was as easy to get together back then as it is today because uh today we travel in automobiles and back in that time a lot of families that didn't have automobiles would just get together and uh the young and old alike would play games uh uh and the families was uh drawn close and uh enjoyed each other whereas today, uh I've got small, I've got ten of these children I know what it is to have, but today the family American family was not together like we were back in this time.

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{Female Voice}
ahhh yah

{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
so uh cane drying has been a wonderful thing, a great experience in my life uh you know to be a to be you know its fun memories

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{Female Voice}
ahh so thats one of the reasons you started working with and helping grating with because its something you loved to see continue

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{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}

this is a thing I love to see and continue to see

{Female Voice}
ok I'm afraid, unless any of you have any questions maybe we could move under the tent and end it informally
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