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Studies in Sugarcane Jaggery III. The Empirical Test for the End-point of Boiling in Gaggery Manufacture

Volume : 24
Issue: Dec-dec
Pages: 377 - 382
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Abstract


The test Usually allpied to mark the end-point of boiling in the manufacture of jaggery consists in subjecting, from time to time towards the last stages in the process,small portions of the boiling mass to sudden cooling by pouring them into large bulk of cold water.At the stage when this supercooled portion assumes a sufficient degree of hardness as judged by the sound produced when struck against the sides of the pan.the boiling is sstopped.the pan removed from the furnace and the mass allowed to cool until sugns of the crystallisation of sucrose.or in other words.of the setting of jaggery,become visible.It is then gathered into a heap and transferred into moulds.

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377 - 382
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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