<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I cook my sugarcane juice in a kettle and I use a hydrometer to measure the thickness. I cook my juice down to a specific gravity of 35 to 36. I tested syrup several years ago. As I cooked it down, I pull syrup off at different <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">specific gravities. I found out that 34 and below will not turn to sugar. Syrup cooked to 34 or less is too thin for me. 35 will start to sugar after about 2 years and 36 will sugar a small amount within a year. 35 to 36 has just enough thickness for me to call it syrup. 37 and higher make a good thick syrup but it sugars at the drop of a hat. The bottom line to this is, the thicker the syrup, the more it will sugar. </span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tobby Taylor</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Morton, Mississippi </span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div><br>On Mar 19, 2016, at 9:25 PM, Ken Reitsma <<a href="mailto:Reit8472@sw.rr.com">Reit8472@sw.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Glen.. What do you mean when you say " let fall to bottom of pot" ? </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Ken<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 19, 2016, at 8:10 PM, Glenn Johnson <<a href="mailto:gjohn46@yahoo.com">gjohn46@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458435594645_52857" dir="ltr">I have some syrup that is over 3 years old with very little crystallization. I cook the syrup to 226 kill heat let fall to bottom of pot and put in hot jars. This has worked good for me.</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, March 19, 2016 9:26 AM, Stanley Hildebrand <<a href="mailto:stan@sandhillfarm.org">stan@sandhillfarm.org</a>> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5861101906"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I have been making sorghum syrup for 35 years; my biggest challenge is crystallization - when i put sell the product to grocery stores.<br></div>anyone have any experience/knowledge about using products - eg, citric acid to decrease crystalliztion?<br></div>I have tried using invertase - and not found it effective. Maybe i did not do it right??<br></div>stan<br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Syrupmakers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net" ymailto="mailto:Syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net">Syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net</a><br><a href="http://syrupmakers.net/mailman/listinfo/syrupmakers_syrupmakers.net" target="_blank">http://syrupmakers.net/mailman/listinfo/syrupmakers_syrupmakers.net</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Syrupmakers mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net">Syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://syrupmakers.net/mailman/listinfo/syrupmakers_syrupmakers.net">http://syrupmakers.net/mailman/listinfo/syrupmakers_syrupmakers.net</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Syrupmakers mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net">Syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://syrupmakers.net/mailman/listinfo/syrupmakers_syrupmakers.net">http://syrupmakers.net/mailman/listinfo/syrupmakers_syrupmakers.net</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>