molasses

Molasses (American English) or black treacle (British English) is a viscous product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies by amount of sugar, method of extraction, and age of plant. Sugarcane molasses is primarily used for sweetening and flavoring foods in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. Sugar beet molasses is foul-smelling and unpalatable, so it is mostly used as an animal feed additive in Europe and Russia, where it is chiefly produced. Molasses is a defining component of fine commercial brown sugar.Sweet sorghum syrup may be colloquially called "sorghum molasses" in the southern United States. Similar products include honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, and invert syrup. Most of these alternative syrups have milder flavors.

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  1. GadgetGuy

    Molasses.

    Won't run out of molasses for a while! Bought a gallon of it from Amazon. I make baked beans a lot, so it's good to have enough of it around & keep on hand. Also comes in handy for making brown sugar, which I Intend to do as soon as the store bought is all gone. It gets all hard if it is around...
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  3. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Recipe Grape Molasses

    Not so much a recipe but a preservation method. 400g of red grapes gave me 80g of grape molasses. My home-grown grapes. Ingredients grapes, any colour will do. Method Wash, and destalk the grapes. If you've time and want to maximise the molasses, chop/slice the grapes and place in a pan...
  4. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Recipe Sykomelo (Fig Molasses)

    I have a surpluse of figs which I don't really know what to do with. So given that you can have grape molasses, date molasses and pomegranate molasses I started wondering if you could have fig molasses . It isn't very common but it does exist to purchase . So does fig syrup which I guess...
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