Process preserved: Milton farmer shares secrets of making his own syrup
The newest syrup to make its way to Louis and Julia Broussard’s table will come by way of an old process, complete with his homegrown sugarcane and a mule on the move.
Broussard, 77 and retired, took up the task 15 years ago of making his own syrup, much like his ancestors did in the old days — au vieux temps — as his fellow French Table language group members say. Back then, he found and purchased cane-grinding equipment in Grant Parish and watched and learned, eventually mastering the process, from someone who knew what he was doing at a little farm near Loreauville.