the process of making palm sugar

take the water palm juice to be processed into brown sugar atsu palm sugar.

To get this palm juice did have to wait about 10 years for this sugar palm trees can flower.

This tapped nira is derived from a droplet of water from the bunch of aren palm flowers. while the female flowers that will be the fruit of fleas.
explained Sutiarto, officer from the Office of Agriculture of Plantation and Forestry, Banyumas.

To be able to tap palm juice, farmers should be able to give special treatment to the palm tree flowers.

To make sure the flower bunches can release sap, the farmer will do the beating of the base of the bunches and swinging the male flowers each Legi Market.

Beating and swinging bunches are carried out two to three months.

"Hit him with wilada wood. if you use wood like carp jengkol or pete, niranya that has not been out.

Swinging the flower should be with all my heart. More steady again when sung songung (tembang) and prayer, tappers palm juice.

The special treatment is usually stopped when the farmer has smelled fragrant from male flowers.
That's when farmers can cut male flowers and leave the base of the bunches of flowers to be tapped.
Using bamboo stairs, farmers can climb palm trees and pair pongkor (bamboo pieces long, red) to accommodate palm juice.

As with palm sugar, after the palm juice is taken we cook to boiling.
After stirring until thickened and before it dries, we print immediately.
Proverbial to turn the water into a sweet stone this takes about 4 hours.
The more palm juice, the longer it cooks.