molasses
Thick cane syrup
Molasses is the thick, dark syrup left over when sugar is refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
It has a bittersweet flavor and is used in baking, especially for gingerbread and brown bread.
Blackstrap molasses, from the final extraction, is the darkest and most bitter.
Something slow as molasses moves very slowly: Traffic was moving like molasses in January.
Spiced molasses bake
- barbecueSlow-cook over coals
- marinadeSeasoned steeping liquid
- glazeThin lustrous coating
- bakingCooking with dry heat
rum · pudding · blackstrap · treacle · shoofly pie · baked beans · brown bread · ginger snaps
Thick sugar-refining byproduct
- blackstrapDarkest grade of molasses
- sorghumWarm-climate cereal grass
- cane sugarSweetener from tropical grass
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
crystallization · sucrose · jaggery · muscovado · turbinado · sugar beet · byproduct · clarification
Cooked sugar confection
- treacleThick sugar-refining byproduct
- brown sugarMolasses-flavored granulated sweetener
- honeyBees' viscous nectar product
- mapleSap-yielding hardwood tree
toffee · butterscotch · bittersweet · dark · robust · malty · earthy · smoky
Having great depth
dense · ropy · treacly · pourable · sluggish · flowing · consistency · tar-like
gingerbread
Spiced molasses bake
baking · rum · pudding · blackstrap · treacle · shoofly pie · baked beans · brown bread · ginger snaps · pumpernickel
treacle
Thick sugar-refining byproduct
- blackstrapDarkest grade of molasses
- sorghumWarm-climate cereal grass
- cane sugarSweetener from tropical grass
refinery · crystallization · sucrose · jaggery · muscovado · turbinado · sugar beet · byproduct · clarification · centrifuge
caramel
Cooked sugar confection
- treacleThick sugar-refining byproduct
- brown sugarMolasses-flavored granulated sweetener
- honeyBees' viscous nectar product
maple · toffee · butterscotch · bittersweet · dark · robust · malty · earthy · smoky · complex
thick
Having great depth
syrupy · dense · ropy · treacly · pourable · sluggish · flowing · consistency · tar-like · heavy
mahogany
Reddish-brown tropical lumber
espresso · sable · brown · brunet · caramel · tawny · chestnut · sepia · amber · bronze
slow
Lacking in speed
speed · pace · drawl · Southern · leisurely · crawling · plodding · unhurried
- candy ingredientssugar syrup, corn syrup, glucose, brown sugar, powdered sugar
- excessive sweetnesssaccharine, cloying, syrupy, sugary, treacly
- Pioneer Foodshardtack, cornbread, biscuits, beef jerky, salt pork
- Solublestable salt, sodium chloride, sugar, sucrose, glucose
- Sugar Coloniessugar cane, sugarcane, sugar plantations, sugar trade, sugar mill
- sugar plantationsugar cane, sugarcane, sugar mill, cane field, cane fields
molasseswater
Clear essential liquid
quicksilver · mercury · alcohol · gasoline · free-flowing
molasseswhite sugar
Refined granulated sweetener
refined sugar · artificial sweetener · saccharin · stevia · aspartame
molassessimple syrup
Sugar dissolved in water
white sugar · bland · neutral · flavorless · mild
- slow as molassesExtremely sluggish pace
- molasses cookieSweet made with cane syrup
- slower than molassesExtremely, comically unhurried
- slow as molasses in JanuaryExtremely, comically sluggish
- blackstrap molassesConcentrated sugarcane extraction residue
- molasses candyChewy sweet from boiled syrup