Do you like molasses? When I was a small child having been brought up with food rationing Mum and Dad had this idea that a spoonful of molasses each day was good for you. I see from the label that it's rich in iron, calcium and potassium so they were probably correct. Dad actually liked it. It's one of the very few foods that I can actually say that I detested. I assume that if I tried it today I would still detest it but as I don't have to try it I have no intention of so doing. I have a jar of it in the pantry because I used it in a cake recipe a while ago.
So why have I introduced molasses? Well partly because I was thinking that my brain felt like it was wallowing in the stuff and partly because when I saw it this morning I thought to myself how thankful I was that I didn't have to eat it.
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Your mind takes strange turns sometimes! :) Not even Wikipedia was very helpful in making it clear to me how molasses/syrup/treacle correspond to the similar-sounding Swedish words. I've only heard of molasses (Sw: melass) as cow food. (No, you don't have to send me a jar, I'll just use my imagination...)
ReplyDeleteInterestingly , Monica, we seem to have a similar problem here nowadays. I've found molasses labelled as black treacle on the supermarkets but it is definitely molasses not treacle - they taste quite different. I like molasses, by the way!
ReplyDeleteWe discovered that different brands of molasses taste very different, I like meridian molasses mixed in with my Oatbran, but Holland & Barrett's own molasses is awful, perhaps it's down to sulphur?
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