A truckload of pressed cane at Lavington Plantation.
Steam rises from a steam of boiling cane syrup.
David Maybank samples the goods.
The group looks on while the fire gets stoked.
Moss-draped trees line the road to Lavington.
Ben Ferguson unearths a load of cane that he had buried to keep it from spoiling.
Caramelized sugar on the edge of the kettle.
Cane juice cools as it runs from a ladling bucket back into the kettle.
Maybank works the press, crushing and squeezing juice from fresh cane.
Syrup drips off a soaked cornbread muffin.
Seed cane sprouts at Lavington.
Jimmy Hagood tends to the fire.
When the hydrometer reaches thirty-two, the cane syrup is done cooking.
Stewart Walker tests the finished product.
photo: Peter Frank Edwards
Hagood pours a jarful of syrup.
photo: Peter Frank Edwards
Swapping stories at Lavington after the cook.
photo: Peter Frank Edwards
A syrup-slathered feast, with shrimp, elk, game birds, and a Pappy Van Winkle-fueled cocktail.
photo: Peter Frank Edwards
