molasses
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5.1
- noun
- /məˈlæsɪz/
:
melaza
- When we could not get sugar, I learned to cook with molasses and honey.
- molasses addition
- sugar and molasses
- molasses treatment
There's that big song where Rutledge sings from molasses to rum.
- There's that big song where Rutledge sings from molasses to rum.
- And he and he he would put a little molasses under your tongue, baby.
- It would turn rum, the creation of rum, pounding sugar into molasses and eventually refining it into rum.
- No, it is slow as molasses.
- But this also, like I said, contains a a concentrate of molasses.
- Teaspoon more of the coconut oil, teaspoon of the Yukon syrup, a teaspoon of the molasses.
- And so my mother raised us on whole wheat bread and the proverbial blackstrap molasses.
- But it is still, unfortunately, just like we're scratching the surface and those people still are getting all of that accomplished, literally swimming through molasses.
- And the sugar plantations recognize it's really easy to grow sugar cane and grow other raw sources of of glucose, molasses, etcetera, etcetera.
- So the stout, the oatmeal, dark molasses, coffee, chocolate.
Examples
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No one seemed to care about a wagon loaded with flour, molasses, and tobacco.
Fiction book (2002) -
Rumor has it she bakes the best molasses cookie you will ever taste.
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You got a dozen jugs of black molasses.
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The one little ray of sunshine here amidst all of these duties is that the duty on foreign molasses was reduced by half.
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Occasionally, she would plant a crop of sorghum and make molasses at the mill her father had built.
Fiction book (2001) -
I think before cane sugar we used to get most of our sweetening with molasses, which used to be stored in these big above ground tubs.
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Later, after a supper of boiled potatoes and molasses cookies, Jonathan Toomey went to his workbench.
Fiction book (2002) -
To make brown sugar, some of the molasses is added back into the white sugar.
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These steamed rice flour dumplings with a molasses filling are called yomari.
Synonyms
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1.0
Thick sweet liquid used to make food or drink taste better
Compounds
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2.5
A soft, chewy cookie sweetened with molasses and spiced with ginger and cinnamon
A thick sweet syrup made from the juice of a tall plant like corn used like sugar
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Molasses comes from Portuguese melaço, which goes back to the Latin root mel meaning 'honey'. So molasses was named for its thick, dark, sweet syrup like 'honey', and that is why the word now means the dark syrup left when sugar is made.