I thought I would talk about one of my favorite things, while we wait on my husband to work with the gingerbread house photos. We got a new camera, new computer, and new software; we are so confused. Anyhoo, let’s talk about molasses, shall we…
Molasses is a by-product that is extracted from the refined sugar cane process. Molasses was first brought to the US from the West Indies to make rum. Why is the rum always gone? Because Chocolatechic makes vanilla with it. Right around 1919 most Americans switched from molasses to white refined sugar.
In January 1919 a a huge vat of molasses exploded killing 21 people. Two million gallons of molasses was poured into the streets. You can read it in The Great Molasses Flood by Maggie Malone.
Molasses has some good quailties, like lots of vitamins and minerals. Blackstrap Molasses, my favorite, which is richer and darker is a source of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and iron. One tablespoon provides up to 20 percent of the daily value of each of those nutrients. It also makes the gingerbread cookies a lovely shade of brown. 🙂
As much as I love molasses there are times when I don’t like it at all…
It took me a long time to clean that mess up. Thank goodness it wasn’t the Blackstrap; it cost a lot more.
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Why? oh why? did you throw those bottles of Molasses on the floor?
That is just one bottle of Molasses and I just put my hand in the panty and the bottle just jumped right off the shelf. Maybe it thought I was going to make it into rum. LOL
That is just one bottle of Molasses and I just put my hand in the panty and the bottle just jumped right off the shelf. Maybe it thought I was going to make it into rum. LOL ]]>
This reminds me that a long time ago, probably well over 25 years, that papaw mentioned that he took a tablespoon of blackstrap every day.
That looks like is was hard to clean up. 😦
Yuck, what a mess!
I love molasses, too, but not on the floor. Ugh, what a mess. I hope it didn’t make you cranky. 😉
Am I glad that didn’t happen at my house. The roof probably would have come off.
Wow, that is some mess! I get upset just having to clean molasses out of my measuring cups.
Yikes! That is one nasty mess. I hope it cleaned up easily.