treading the fruit and stirring the sauce in rural Turkey

I was intrigued to encounter many women in baggy pantaloons and headscarves making tomato sauce. The fruit, in an elevated box with a spout, was trodden with bare feet (accompanied by squishing, squelching and slurping sounds!) so that the resultant liquid ran into large pans, which were then placed over an open fire in the yard and stirred with long poles. 

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