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Here are the steps needed to make Basi Wine from sugar cane.

Ingredients

fresh sugar cane juice

Procedures:

Select fresh, mature and uninjured sugar cane. (Choose the good variety and remove adhering roots and other sources of impurities).

Extract the juice and measure. Heat and before it boils, immerse a basket containing about two gantas of ground, dry leaves and flowers of samac. Continue boiling until two parts (for basis babae (female) or one part (for basi lalake (female) evaporates.

Pour the cooked juice into a clean tapayan (barrel) and cover it with wilted banana leaves. Do not tie the leaves tightly.

Two or three days later, it will be observed that the juice will begin to ferment. Do not stir the fermenting liquor.

When the fermentation subsides, reinforce the cover with more wilted banana leaves. Then, either cover it with an earthen cover or cement some earth on top of the banana leaves in order to protect it from contamination.

Do not open or expose the fermented liquor to the air because this is the cause of its sour taste or its turning into vinegar. Allow it to age for at least one year or more.