“Tee, will you serve the coffee, please? Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Fred are coming. Aunt Rita and Aunt Nell might come, too,” said Momma. “Yes, I will,” I replied. “I will serve them some of the syrup ...

In the rural South Georgia town of Moultrie, the Turner family is among a handful of Southerners still making cane syrup the old-fashioned way. Where I come from, biscuits aren’t reserved for ...