At one time date juice was the main crop of the farmers in the greater Jessore-Kushtia region. So in winter, life on the other side was palm-centric. This season there was a lot of noise on the way from the market to the market. In the winter, the market would be full of red molasses. Wholesalers used to come from Dhaka to buy molasses. The storekeepers used to wear bikinis with big scales.
There were big date orchards. In the afternoon, in the afternoon, the trees would form a group and walk on the field with their bamboo poles on their shoulders. Now there are no big date orchards like before. Farmers are shifting to other crops instead of juice and molasses. That is why the era of juice and molasses has faded. Yet there are still some date orchards. The trees still cut down the trees. Still in those areas the smell of tantras and hot molasses lingers in the winter mornings.
In winter, the afternoon is very short. It's hard to cope with Bella. In the afternoon without it. Molasses must be sold. I want to cut the tree before that. The trees, therefore, somehow sniffed the rice at noon and went out to the field.
The tree has a stump made of bamboo and date palm on the back. Inside that thong are several types of photos, tubes, ropes, sharp sticks, pegs, etc. A thick rope tied around the waist. With the help of this rope the tree keeps itself attached to the tree. In addition, there is a sand dune made of slices of palm trees. Da is rubbed with sand on the sand stream. To borrow or sharpen photos.
The tree has an ally. He arranges the juices in two rows facing each other. Then in the middle of it humming straw. Then it caught fire. The smell of the juice of the previous day sticks to the clown. Just washing it with water does not work. But when the clown is burnt in this way by fire, the smell goes away.
Then he climbed the tree with the thonga. He wrapped himself with a thick rope around the tree.
But it's not like tying yourself to a tree at all. The rope is loosened and the tree and the body are put inside a bracket. The tree restrained his two legs against the tree and left the weight of his body on the rope. Jute sacks are wrapped around the waist of the tree to protect it from the frictional impact of the hard rope. Then start cutting down trees.
At the beginning of winter, the leaves and twigs on one side of the head of the tree are cleaned. Then there are two eyes made in the shape of human eyes scratched with photos. Bamboo tubes are placed along the nose under the two holes. Bamboo pegs are planted diagonally on the tree just below the tube. This peg works like a nail. The pitcher is attached to the peg with a rope. In the Jessore-Kushtia area, a jug of juice is called a clown.
For two days in a row, he scratched the tree with a sharp photo. As soon as it was shaved, the juice started dripping down the bamboo tube. These bamboo tubes are always planted in the tree. If the tube is damaged for any reason, a new tube is taken out from the tree stump and planted there. The newly cut eyes of the tree are then rubbed well with a bamboo stick to clear the way for the sap to fall. As a result, the juice can easily reach the tube.
At the end of the cutting, the tree leaves that tree and goes to cut another tree. An associate of the tree came and stuck the clown in the trunk of the newly cut tree. If there is no collaborator, the hard work of the tree is a little more.
After that, in the afternoon-evening-night, the juice flowed through the tube for about fifteen hours. Yet not a single jar of juice is available from a tree all night. Two or three trees together make a clown juice.
The trees got up in the morning and went to the field. Then nature is covered in dense fog. The back of the tree is bent. Bending is a kind of stick made of slit bamboo. It has two loops on each head. The juice clown is hung on the rope with a rope. An equal number of clowns are hung on either side of the bend. It creates a balance like a scale. It has the advantage of being a clown. Sometimes the number of clowns is much higher. Then the weight of the juice bends, the body of the tree bends.
The house of the trees has a large stove made of bricks and clay to burn the juice. This type of stove is called bain. The bins here are rectangular. The previous bains were round. Because, in this era molasses is burned in rectangular tin containers. Earlier, molasses was burned in round earthen pots. The pot of juice is called the pot of fire. After pouring the juice into the burning pot, the stove is set on fire.
The present bin has two large holes on either side. Fuel is inserted from one side. On the other hand, burning coal burns out and keeps the inside of the bin clean. There are a total of six windows, three on each side of the outside. This is done to keep the oxygen supply in order and to facilitate the emission of carbon dioxide.
A lot of fuel is needed to burn the juice. The date palm provides most of this fuel. At the beginning of the season, a lot of date leaves have to be pruned to make it suitable for cutting trees. The leaves are dried and used to make juice. Apart from this, the bushes of the field are also cut and dried and the juice is given. Straw is also often used.
The flame starts to boil after half an hour of pouring the juice into the pot. Water vapor like thick fog can be seen on the burning pot. The long process of burning molasses. It takes about three to four hours. Sometimes the dirt inside the juice collects and white foam accumulates. He threw foam at the tree with a flying garland.
After a couple of hours the juice turned a lot red. The fragrance spreads all around. The air of the whole village was then filled with a sweet smell. The little children pick up some weaving juice in a glass. Tantras is eaten like tea by blowing. That Mahendrakshan comes after three o'clock. The juice turned completely red. The tree or tree-wife collects the molasses. Molasses is unloaded. The smell is even sweeter then.
Hot molasses is stirred for a while with urkimala. Then the real work. ‘Seed dies’. The seeds are killed by rubbing the stalks of date leaves on the burning pot. This creates a white paste on the pot. The quality of molasses depends on the killing of seeds. The better the seed dies, the thicker the molasses will be. If you want to freeze molasses, you have to kill the seeds for a long time.
It is not possible to make a paste by killing seeds even after hundreds of attempts on a cloudy day. So it is impossible to get frozen molasses on a cloudy day without absolutely hanging molasses. When the seeds are dead, the white paste is mixed with molasses with urakimala. At this time the children fold the bamboo stick or dried date leaves and use it to pick molasses from the pot.
Finally molasses is poured into a clay pot. Then the mouth of the clown is closed with thick frozen molasses. Then the clown with molasses goes to the market, from there it spreads all over the country.
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