Molasses

Molasses cookies are awesome - wish I had some!

It killed a bunch of people and horses in Boston when it flooded the city.

Well, I'll have mine with Blackstrap molasses 'Cause I can't taste it anymore.

It's essential in baked beans and very good in for certain roasted meat.

It’s used in legacy recipes like gingerbread and baked beans.

[quote]Who even uses it anymore?

People still bake, OP. And use it on pancakes, biscuits, etc.

It's an ingredient in my momma's rye bread recipe I love.

It was huge in Boston before. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon used it as lube.

I love a molasses cookie.

[quote]It was huge in Boston before. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon used it as lube.

Locally, it became known as 'molassses.

Molasses is a byproduct of refining sugar. IMO, it has an umami flavor (sorry). It's ripe for some type of revival in popularity. E.g., Trader Joe's molasses cookies.

I use it in oatmeal cookies and sometimes add a little to my coffee.

Oh my, yes, OP!

I use molasses for my late Grandma Ella's incredible old-style gingerbread. And it's indispensable in several of my own (secret) non-dessert recipes.

But as far as I'm concerned the Brer Rabbit molasses is hot garbage; it imparts a nasty sulfur-y metal tang to whatever you're making.

Grandma's is the only molasses I use regularly. Reminds me a bit of Myer's Rum in its flavor and versatility.

What's "weird" about its taste? It's used as flavoring so many people must think it tastes good.

Do you want to buy the unsulfured molasses.

It's just old-timey, so people have to say it's weird. Until it has a resurgence in popularity, then everybody can love it.

I bet it'd make a good ingredient for a glaze for fish.

Has anybody brought back sarsaparilla?

Horehound also sounds old-timey.

I prefer sassafras.

Suffering Succotash!

I make molasses thumbprint cookies with currant jelly every year for Christmas. One of my favorites.

R17, are you the monster who paired cod and prunes? I'll kill you all if molasses becomes the sundried tomatoes of this decade. All of you.

You need it for shoo-fly pie.

My awesome gingersnaps recipe requires molasses.

R23, that is definitely not me, lol.

I always have a jar of molasses in my pantry. I use it in lots of baked goods.

I used it in a custard and it came out tasting like caramel.

On its own it makes me gag.

For how many years will molasses last in my pantry?

Does this stuff rot my teeth?

I use molasses in almost anything baked that has ginger. Also in homemade BBQ sauce and rye bread.

[quote]It's just old-timey, so people have to say it's weird. Until it has a resurgence in popularity, then everybody can love it.

Yup, R16--like rose/vetiver/violet/oakmoss chypre notes in perfumery. Under-40s slate them as "old-timey", Grandma/Gramps fragrances.

I had a friend who took a tablespoon daily, hoping to reverse her gray hairs.

R32, did it work?

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Unlike sugar, molasses is good for you; has various vitamins.

It's a must for homemade BBQ sauce, and works well in marinades.

Is it like treacle?

Yes, R37. Similar.

I lived the ok’d expression “get the molasses out your ass!”

MO-lasses.

Well, kiss my sticky ass.

Sorghum molasses is not the same as molasses made while refining sugar. Very different taste.

“Slower than molasses in January.”

Molasses to Rum

How does someone die from molasses?

By trying to swim in it, R45.

More horrifically, they were scalded to death.

Probably my favorite cookie of my mother's is her molasses cookies. I don't see it many other applications, at least to my knowledge.

I'm telling you, r47, molasses is the pit bull of the sweet ingredient world.

The celebrity nutritionist Gaylord Hauser (Garbo was a good friend of his) claimed that blackstrap molasses was a superfood. One of his recipes was a dessert that consisted of broiled grapefruit with blackstrap molasses in the center. I don't think I'd want to try that.

[quote] One of his recipes was a dessert that consisted of broiled grapefruit with blackstrap molasses in the center.

If it also included prunes, it would be manna from heaven!

I've heard of broiled grapefruit with brown sugar in the center, r50.

Broiled grapefruit with brown sugar is delicious. We had it on Xmas 🎄 morning last year as the first course…followed by many mimosas.

I miss grapefruit & grapefruit juice. Hard to find!

I use it in chili to take the edge off the flavor of the peppers. Works much better than refined sugar.

I don't know about that, R17. Honey works great as a glaze for salmon, but I'd think molasses would overpower the fish.

It’s great in cookies. In Canada we have these Halloween molasses candies. I hate them but some people love them. I was always disappointed because the wrappers were cool but I hated the taste.

One of my favorite recipes is whole wheat buttermilk molasses muffins. I like to throw some blueberries in. Sounds weird but they’re quite delicious.

Molasses has iron so more nutritious than honey.

[quote] I miss grapefruit & grapefruit juice. Hard to find!

Are they victims of the supply-chain crisis? They used to be everywhere like Billie Jean.

It plays havoc with retail.

Do people pair it with chocolate?

It's terrific with pancakes and French Toast. It's a good alternative to maple syrup.

I put it in my cooter, ya'll.

My brother and I always use to say “Mo-lass-is on the table” in a drawn out southern drawl.

I love molasses mixed in milk. I can't imagine it on pancakes though.

R63: My dad would call it “Mole-asses” to be funny, because mom didn’t like swearing and it would get her comically riled up.

That grapefruit and blackstrap molasses recipe sounds delicious. So many people can’t eat grapefruit anymore because of medication interactions I think it has impacted their availability.

I love toasted brown bread with butter or cream cheese - full of molasses goodness.

Add to pork and beans and Voilá, you have baked beans.

OP, black grandmammies.

If you do any Asian stir-frying, it's an ingredient. It's called something else, eg kecap manis, but it's molasses. Add it to the soy sauce and fish oil.

[quote] I use it in oatmeal cookies and sometimes add a little to my coffee.

r12 I tried it in my coffee this morning. Interesting change of pace!

I use it in ginger snaps and gingerbread. I’ve also used it on cornbread, and put it in oatmeal.

I tried it as lube. Fail.

I’m sneaking away at work every couple of hours to do shots of it in the store room with the new handyman, I may have a problem!

[quote]It's terrific with pancakes and French Toast. It's a good alternative to maple syrup.

But you can't save it.

R69 has a point. Korean food has a kind of soy sauce which is called something like "soup soy sauce" in English, and it is thicker than Japanese soy sauce, and has a strong sort of molasses aroma to it, although I don't know that it is even made with sugar. It does have a small amount of honey added in the fermentation process (which goes on for a year), but not enough to make it super sweet. It's *strong* stuff, to Western taste anyhow.

In the South, they used to make fried cornbread, and molasses is a traditional thing to put on top of it. Its' damn good stuff.

Blackstrap is a sexy word.

Sarah Pallin is intellectually slow as molasses.

She smells a LOT worse.

This is the only Molasses I know.

I have always loved John Cullum. His voice is like buttah!

Admitted eldergay here, but I remember molasses being a staple in my grandmother's pantry.

Blackstrap molasses has a strong, bitter sweet taste. I used to stir a tablespoon in a glass of milk....it has a lot of iron and calcium, but I stopped. It was ok, but didn't really care for it. It's the same with sardines for me. I try to like them, but can't.

It has a lot of potassium, too.

How can I have mo-lasses when I ain't had no lasses yet?!

R80, meet R44.

This molasses cake sounds interesting.

Only on DL could this thread take off.

You love to see it.

"Mammy's li'l baby loves 'lasses bread."

We even have a Doilies thread, r88...

Scarlett to Prissy: "You're slow as molasses in January!"

But is she corny as Kansas in August?

What does it taste like in coffee?

A bit like molasses, r93.

Molasses, Onassis… hmmmm

a piece of fresh fluffy white bread with butter or even margarine dipped in molasses is heaven on earth.

r96, bump

Three moles are in their tunnel, scurrying in a line down to their home.

The first mole says, I smell honey.

The second mole says, I smell sugar.

The last mole says, I smell...

Well, this molasses thread has certainly made a successful run of it! But lest you forget, there is a deadly side to molasses, The Great Molasses Flood of 1919! Twenty-one people died and 150 were injured and it was a very sticky situation.

Do you like homemade carmel corn? The best requires dark molasses. No substitutions. Chomp on that you ignorant, molasses nay saying, Fiddle Faddle, Crunch n Munch, Screaming Yellow Zonker, Cracker Jacks.