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molasses

Thick, usually dark, syrup obtained during the refining of sugar (either cane or beet) or made from varieties of sorghum.

Fermented sugar-cane molasses produces rum; fermented beet-sugar molasses yields ethyl alcohol.

Unsulfured raw molasses, called blackstrap, is a nutritious food, containing in 1 tablespoon 585 mg of potassium.
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After tea that evening, Fanny proposed that Polly should show her how to make molasses candy, as it was cook's holiday, and the coast would be clear.
An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
Some of you left a soup plate with molasses in it on the pantry table and Pat got into it and what do you think?
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
If he wished for a barrel of molasses, he might purchase it with a pile of pine boards.
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