Can I make Blackstrap Molasses at home,?

Question

if I have sugarcane juice (which is available here), can I make BSM at home as it is difficuilt to get it here in India.

Answer 1

You would have to boil it repeatedly but you would need an awful lot of juice to produce a small amount of molasses and its not a simple process as it necessitates taking out the crystallized sugar and then a second boiling taking out more sugar and then a third boiling taking out even more sugar to produce blackstrap molasses. So each boiling requires sugar extraction and there are 3 boilings required. Read these links and you will see what I mean:

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=mol...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molasses