Molasses
Molasses noun - Thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining.
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- Recipes for traditional British puddings involving sugar or its byproducts (treacle, molasses) are likely no older than the 18th century, when imports from the West Indies made it available to those other than the very wealthy.
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