Last winters I used to travel regularly to the sugar belt of India...Western U.P Dhampur and surrounding areas.
One could see a number of gur making hutments on the road. Stopped by them at one of them and picked up some gur.
Gur is actually brown sugar... the first level of unrefined sugar used in making chikki/gacchak
First step is to take out sugar cane juice using a electric run juicer. Then this juice is boiled in a couple of stages. Interestingly the remnants of juiced sugarcane i.e molasses, is dried and used to boil the sugarcane juice.
Later when the concentrate becomes thick it is put in a chamber and left to cool. Pieces cut, stacked and sold on the highway. Minimum quanity...one piece...20 kgs.
One could see a number of gur making hutments on the road. Stopped by them at one of them and picked up some gur.
First step is to take out sugar cane juice using a electric run juicer. Then this juice is boiled in a couple of stages. Interestingly the remnants of juiced sugarcane i.e molasses, is dried and used to boil the sugarcane juice.
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