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blackstrap

blackstrap

1 7.9
A very dark, thick syrup left after people remove the last sugar
  • noun
  • /ˈblækstræp/
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  • "Fatback 'n blackstrap molasses!"
  • blackstrap molasses

And so my mother raised us on whole wheat bread and the proverbial blackstrap molasses.

Examples

  • Start with a Dark and Stormy cocktail with homemade ginger ale, rum, and blackstrap molasses.

  • And so my mother raised us on whole wheat bread and the proverbial blackstrap molasses.

  • Blackstrap molasses is good, too, as someone mentioned.

    Blog text (1)
  • Live Longer, which promised to add five "youthful years" to your life, was promoting the sale of one brand of blackstrap molasses.

    Blog text (13)
  • And so my mother raised us on whole wheat bread and the proverbial blackstrap molasses.

  • "Fatback 'n blackstrap molasses!" he said, forgetting he would walk eight acres for cracklin' bread and okra.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • If you can't get 'treacle', then molasses will do—but not the 'blackstrap' molasses, which is quite bitter.

    Blog text (3)
  • The natural types of sweeteners include honey, blackstrap molasses, and stevia.

  • Most rum is made from blackstrap molasses—the sludge left after sugar is refined.

Synonyms

syrup
vsblackstrap
203 1.0

Thick sweet liquid used to make food or drink taste better

is a concentrated residue formed during the final sugar extraction
molasses
vsblackstrap
28 5.1

A thick dark sweet liquid made by boiling sugar cane or beet juice

is the concentrated residue left after the final sugar extraction

How Sweet

honey
305 1.0
corn syrup
  • US
22 2.3
maple syrup
36 1.0
blackstrap
1 7.9

Surface Forms

blackstrap singular
blackstraps plural

Etymology

Blackstrap joins black ('dark') and strap, an old word for a thick leftover liquid, so blackstrap means the very dark, strong syrup left after the last pressing of sugar.