SORGHUM!!! MOLASSES!!!

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How did I MISS this stuff?? I grew up in Alabama and am 64 years old and can never recall having molasses sweetener! Carole bought some molasses from an outfit up the road which uses it to feed cattle(!!!!). It is excellent. She has been using it to sweeten pancakes, but most especially to make a syrup she drizzles over pecans and walnuts to make Christmas candy. It is great. It tastes sweet, of course. However, it has a "wholesome" taste (only word I can think of) that does not leave me jittery, or that "fast food sweet" feeling of a full stomach and empty body, like you ate cardboard and have a bloated stomach but your body still wants food.
The stuff is crazy cheap, too. Lots of farmers around here raise milo, and almost all of them use it for cattle feed. My dad and grandmother (long dead) used to talk about this stuff. Not sure how I missed this.

Good bye Log Cabin syrup.

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Molasses is a byproduct... the bottoms of the distillation process of refining sugar. So it used to be the cheapest sugar product one could get. It's fed to animals. A family in Newfoundland would go the winter on a barrel of molasses, a barrel of flour and dried fish. Now, you and I consider it something desirable!
 
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In the 79’s I loved when dad would pick up Sorghum (lighter than black molasses) in paint cans, make buttermilk biscuits, mix the sorghum 50/50 with butter and spread it on the biscuits.
YUM!
 
Molasses, natures sugar... A sweetener beyond comparison, over hot, buttered biscuits it'll make you slap anyone!!!
Grandmother used to get it from the Crawford's up at the top of the hill, it was only processed ONCE a year.... don't be late..
 
Molasses is the BEST!! Tons of recipes out there, but by far the best is drizzle it over hot, fresh, buttered biscuits. Damn!!


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Pink_Vapor said:
In the 79’s I loved when dad would pick up Sorghum (lighter than black molasses) in paint cans, make buttermilk biscuits, mix the sorghum 50/50 with butter and spread it on the biscuits.
YUM!
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This how we ate it. Blackstrap molasses is animal feed. Sometime used for cooking. Sorghum molasses isn't a byproduct of refining sugar either, its purposely cooked down from cane.
 
Molasses is the only thing I put on grits. Biscuits and grits with molasses is great.

I will have to try mixing it with butter first...
 
Knife nerd moment...

Butter and Molasses was also the name of an older celluloid based knife handle material in this color scheme:

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GEC recently released a whittler in an updated acrylic material in an homage called Grits ad Molasses:

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Selling sorghum syrup is the business that saved my dad's family in the depression in South Carolina. When I was much younger my grandfather grew cane and cooked syrup from it. We still have the gear but we lost him and all his experience in 2011. Brings back memories for me, that's for sure.

The good stuff keeps forever. I have a jar from the last cooking we made over 20 years ago that's still just fine.

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Molasses is one of the staples that we never run out of. As soon as I crack a new jar, I acquire another almost immediately.
 
If anybody is up for a project, I will coordinate between somebody growing sorghum cane and my dad to process it into syrup. We have the mill to press and equipment to cook, but currently we aren't set up to grow any cane.

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Blackstrap molasses on buttered cat head biscuits ....good groceries,!
I love that slightly smokey-burnt taste :)
 
My grandfather used to tell me about a cure-all,home remedy his mother would make he and his brothers take after
the start of the new year.
She called it a “spring tonic” ......(1) tsp of sulfur / (2) tsp blackstrap molasses.
Good for worms, germs, moles, holes, burns, bumps, boils, insomnia, fits, farts and freckles on the belly....!!!!o_O
 
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GoWolfpack said:
If anybody is up for a project, I will coordinate between somebody growing sorghum cane and my dad to process it into syrup. We have the mill to press and equipment to cook, but currently we aren't set up to grow any cane.

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We might need to talk to figure out what all is involved or figure out which type you would need specifially. We have grown a few diffrent sorgrham types over the years but mainly for the cows to graze and not sure if same variety you would need or what kind of qty it takes.
 
Jp8819 said:
We might need to talk to figure out what all is involved or figure out which type you would need specifially. We have grown a few diffrent sorgrham types over the years but mainly for the cows to graze and not sure if same variety you would need or what kind of qty it takes.
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I'll talk with my dad and find out what kind of information he can give me. We've talked about it a few times, we'll see if we can get it together for 2020.
 
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