Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do gingerbread, ginger snaps and baked beans have in common? (Nope, this isn’t the start of a bad joke.) Molasses. The sticky ...

Getting ready for fall baking? Take a quick inventory of your pantry to make sure your spices are fresh and you have plenty of molasses, one of the South’s favorite sweeteners. This syrup can vary in ...

Start your day with a warm bowl of oatmeal sweetened with blackstrap molasses. Cook oats as usual, and stir in one tablespoon ...

More than a few Southern recipes call for sorghum syrup or molasses, like our Molasses Crinkles and sorghum-sweetened Gingersnap Cookies, to name two. Many old-fashioned recipes relied on the syrups ...

When I was growing up, family dinners were always a lively and frenzied event. As my mom and aunts were putting the finishing touches on their dishes, I would take advantage of the commotion to ...

Blackstrap molasses is a byproduct of sugar production. It contains sugar but also beneficial nutrients, including iron. Sugar production starts with boiling sugarcane juice to crystallize the sugar, ...

The phrase "slow as molasses" isn't always consistent with physics, and it certainly wasn't the case on January 15, 1919 when a lethal wave of sweet stickiness up to 25 feet tall ran through Boston's ...