Guide Note:Molasses or treacle is a thick syrup by-product from the processing of the sugarcane or sugar beet into sugar.
Fast Facts:
- Molasses is the base material for fermentation into rum.
- Molasses is the key ingredient in Shoofly pie, a mostly Pennsylvania Dutch dessert in the Southeastern region of Pennsylvania.
- In 1919, Boston had a molasses disaster. 2 million gallons of crude molasses burst from a tank and pushed its way through the neighborhood and city. It killed at least 21 people and took weeks to clean up.