Types of Molasses

Questions and Answers – Types of Molasses

 

 

Question:

Could you tell me the difference from fancy molasses and cooking and unsulphered molasses? – Jen (12/11/00)

 

Answer:

The word “Molasses” is used to cover a variety of products in the sugar industry.  Molasses is a by-product of the sugar manufacturing process.  Molasses is an excellent source of iron, calcium, and vitamin B and serves as a great energy food.

Types of MolassesFancy Molasses – also known as Gold Star, when used in baking, the results are a light colored, sweet product, also good as a topping on bread, biscuits, and crackers.

Lite Molasses – contains 40% less sugar than our Fancy Molasses.  Recipes made with Light Molasses have a subtle flavor and are lighter in color.  Cookies are slightly softer while breads are more crusty.  Light molasses comes from the first boiling of the sugar.

Cooking Molasses – is a blend of Fancy and Blackstrap Molasses.  The use of Cooking Molasses results in a darker, less sweet baked product (great for ginger snaps).

Unsulphured Molasses – has the best flavor, is made from sun-ripened cane which has grown 12-15 months.

Blackstrap Molasses – is the final by-product of the sugar making process, it is dark and has a slightly bitter, robust flavor.  The thick dark brown liquid obtained from the refining of sugar cane is commonly referred to as “Blackstrap Molasses.”  Some of it’s more common uses is in the production of industrial alcohol and feeding livestock.

 

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Comments and Reviews

8 Responses to “Types of Molasses”

  1. Gary

    Did the author even read what they wrote. 1st they say “Molasses is a direct product of sugar cane and is in no way a by-product of any sugar manufacturing process. Molasses is an excellent source of iron, calcium, and vitamin B and serves as a great energy food”. Then go on to say this about black strap molasses “is a direct by-product of the sugar making process, it is dark and has a slightly bitter, rolebust flavor.”

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    • Nancy

      Thank you for pointing that out Gary, we must have had a bad typing day.

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  2. Brenda

    I can’t find anyone that sells lite Molasses. Any help would be great.

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  3. DIANE BAILEY

    I live in ontario canada, just wondering if i can use the cooking molasses in making bear paw cookies, calls for fancy molasses, is there really a difference when making cookies.

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  4. Mike

    They’ll be delicious either way. Go for it!

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  5. Tahne Thomas

    HI there

    Can I use crude black molasses to make gingerbread men? I’m not sure whether it is the same as Blackstrap and therefore I shoiuldnt use it? Please help?

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  6. Anna

    What is the best molasses to use for baking gingerbread cookies?

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  7. Debbie

    the recipe calls for both 3/4 cup of Fancy and 1/2 cup cooking molasses. Can I use all Fancy. Do I really have to buy both?

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