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Process of Gur making in the traditional setup in khyber pukhtunkwa

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Gur can be used as a substitute of sugar in our rural areas. Mostly our people like to use Gur in tea and other desserts as substitute of sugar. One may directly use sugarcane juice as a drink but there is a need to wash and clean the sugarcane properly. Gur is boiled in water and after cooling it can be used as a cold drink in summers. It has cooling effects. Even in urban areas people do use Gur instead of sugar for having some change taste. Gur is the traditional sweet obtained from the sugarcane. I did visit to a Gur Ghani (Ghani is a local term used for that traditional setup, where the process of Gur making is done. This process is very simple and can be completed with in few simple steps. In following picture male females along with children, all busy together in the harvesting and peeling of sugarcane in the fields. In the first stage, the sugarcane is crushed under the crusher machine to get the juice or syrup, then collected in a separate container installed with th

some videos about Gur making