Crossword clues for molasses
molasses
- Exemplar of slowness
- Thick treacle
- Sugar-refining by-product
- Metaphor for slowness
- Syrup in baked beans
- Sugar refining byproduct
- Slow-flowing syrup
- Shoofly pie ingredient
- Gingerbread ingredient
- What gives brown sugar its color
- Thick dark syrup
- Syrup in gingerbread
- Slow mover in January
- Rum source
- Rum ingredient
- Rum base
- It's slowest in January
- Common ingredient in baked beans
- Causes of some good stick situations
- Candy ingredient
- Blackstrap, for example
- " . . . as ___ in January"
- Sugar byproduct
- Slow flower
- Baked beans ingredient
- Especially during sugar refining
- Thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane
- Treacle
- Symbol of slowness
- Blackstrap or treacle
- Thick syrup extracted from sugar cane
- Oil emptied in tons, thick liquid
- Syrup army doctor’s given girls
- Sugar syrup
- Second group of girls making treacle
- Sam loses (anag) — thick dark syrup
- Bitter syrup produced by Missouri girls
- It's sweet girl in some trouble
- Doctor gets the girls - that's sweet
- Dark treacle in short while found by girls
- Dark syrup extracted from sugar cane
- After a short time, misses sweet stuff
- Epitome of slowness
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molasses \Mo*las"ses\, n. [F. m['e]lasse, cf. Sp. melaza, Pg. mela[,c]o, fr. L. mellaceus honeylike, honey-sweet, mel, mellis, honey. See Mellifluous, and cf. Melasses.] The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Portuguese melaço, from Late Latin mellaceum "new wine," properly neuter of mellaceus "resembling honey," from Latin mel (genitive mellis) "honey" (see Melissa). Adopted in English in plural form, but regarded as a singular noun.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar. Etymology 2
n. (plural of molasse English)
WordNet
n. thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
Wikipedia
Molasses, or black treacle (British, for human consumption; known as molasses otherwise), is a viscous by-product of refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies by amount of sugar, method of extraction, and age of plant. Molasses is primarily used for sweetening and flavoring foods. It is a defining component of fine commercial brown sugar.
Sweet sorghum syrup may be colloquially called "sorghum molasses" in the southern United States. Similar products include treacle, honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, and invert syrup. Most of these alternative syrups have milder flavors.
Usage examples of "molasses".
Impoverished Argali could never match such an offer: shovels and awls forged from fine metals, stacks of dried firewood, golden bridle bells, dewhoney and molasses, dried rose-leeks, cobberwheat, tri-grains, and reedflour that poured through your fingers like powdered rubies.
Kitty forced herself to eat the hoecakes, slathered in molasses and fresh-churned butter, but the slab of fried ham was too greasy for her still weak stomach.
Splenda with a very small amount of molasses gives a good, brown-sugar flavor to all sorts of recipes.
I keep my molasses in a squeeze container to make it easy to measure out very small quantities.
Splenda, pineapple, soy sauce, molasses, and garlic, and set it by the stove.
Mix the ketchup, teriyaki sauce, Splenda, molasses, and garlic together, pour it into the cooker, cover the pot, and set it on Low.
Splenda, molasses, garlic, and thyme, and dump it on top of the chicken and mushrooms.
Stir in the Splenda, molasses, salt, dry mustard, paprika, chili powder, black pepper, water, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and horseradish.
I love the warm brown flavor of the molasses contrasted with the cool, sharp flavor of the grapefruit.
Brer Rabbit got done laughing, he call up the little Rabs, give them some molasses for supper, and spanked them and sent them to bed.
I might make you a drink out of molasses and herbs, with some spirits in it.
British plantations, but they smuggle in French molasses and drive the price down.
Sir George was drinking wine and yawning over a list of molasses prices.
Throughout the voyage their only meal had been dinner, but today they got a breakfast of porridge and molasses and a ration of rum and water.
Just like that, something tender he had never felt before took over his bones and seeped into his guts like a golden molasses, making him want to cry.