Distilleries were common; molasses was extensively used in the making of rum and also by the fishermen; a heavy duty was put upon molasses and sugar as also on tea, nails, glass and paints.
Large quantities of sugar were imported in the guise of molasses which, it was discovered, after being boiled a few minutes, would produce an almost equal weight in brown sugar.
Each time he recalled the letter he puzzled over the familiar appearance of the address, until suddenly, as he was filling a jug at the spigot of a molasses barrel, he remembered.
Pink almost let the molasses jug overflow, while thinking about it and wondering why she had given him such a nickname.
One of our neighbors was noted for her molasses sponge cake.
Needless to say, she continued to be the only molasses sponge cake maker.
If asked for the recipe, she would give it as follows: "I take some molasses and saleratus and flour and shortening, and some milk.
Add one fourth of a compressed yeast cake to two cups of water containing two tablespoonfuls of molasses or sugar.
Let us now take a compressed yeast cake, shake up a small portion of it in a solution of molasses and water, and fill a fermentation tube with the mixture.
You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you and your tobacco-juice and molasses have made him blind.
I did cal'late to send for you before; but one o' the neighbors was in, and she said to putmolasses and tobacco-juice in them.
Soak the Glue over night in a small quantity of cold water, then melt it by heat over a salt water bath, stir until froth begins to rise, then add and stir in briskly the Molasses previously heated.
The flexible moulds referred to are prepared as follows: Glue eight pounds, Molasses (New Orleans) seven pounds.
Ivory Black one pound, Molasses two ounces, Olive Oil four ounces, Oil of Vitriol four ounces, Alcohol eight ounces, Rye Flour one pound.
To keep molasses from sugaring in the barrel; when making the molasses, to every barrel add twenty pounds of glucose, stir it in.
Common Molasses Candy is very nice with any kind of nuts added.
When boiled enough take it off, rub your hands over with butter; take that which is a little cooled and pull it as you would molasses candy, until it is white; then twist or braid it and cut it up in strips.
Mix molasses and shortening; add the spice and egg, then the milk, and last the flour, with soda sifted in it.
For pumpkin pie half a cup of molasses may be added, and the eggs can be omitted, substituting half a cup of flour mixed with the sugar and spice before stirring in.
Make a hole in the middle of the meal, and stir in the molasses and water, beating all till smooth.
He has stirred the grease and molasses together, and in this outlandish mixture cooked the eggs.
An hour later he brings in the scrambled eggs, swimming in hot molasses and grease!
A once rich planter near Columbia made a living by selling flowers; a Charleston aristocrat peddled tea by the pound and molasses by the quart to his former slaves.
To free Molasses from its sharp taste, and to render it fit to be used instead of Sugar.
Honey and milk are very good for worms; so is strong salt water; likewise, powdered sage and molasses taken freely.
Twenty-four pounds of molasseswill produce twenty-four pounds of syrup.
Cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and ginger, of each equal quantities; honey ormolasses to mix.
Experiments made upon diluted molasses or with raw beet juices were not encouraging.
The separation of crystals from adhering molasses is done in a special washing appliance arranged in battery form.
Thank you," Charley accepted, putting a spoonful of the molassesinto his tea, and wondering why it was used instead of sugar, but venturing no question.
Flour undergoes little change, and molasses can at -28° be half scooped, half cut by a stiff iron ladle.
Madame Chapdelaine stirred the fire in the big cast-iron stove, came and went, brought from the cupboard plates and dishes, the loaf of bread and pitcher of milk, tilted the great molasses jar over a glass jug.
Molasses and brown sugar were set on the stove to boil, and when this had proceeded far enough Telesphore brought in a large dish of lovely white snow.
This they sweetened with molasses and drank out of tin cups while they munched hardtack.
There were roast ptarmigans stuffed with fine-chopped pork and bread, and the unwonted luxuries of butter and sugar--and then the plum pudding served with molasses for sauce.
The dance goes on and we almost see grim Death himself smile as the Rhymer closes his Dance Song with directions not to bury him deep, and to put bread in his hand and molasses at his feet that he may eat on the way to the "Promised Land.
W'en I comes to die, you mus'n' bury me deep, But put Sogrum molasses close by my feet.
But to my way of thinkin' it ain't no more molasses than it's oysters.
Aren't you shipped out of filthy Ratcliffe Highway lodgings, where the ship's bread and meat and molasses would be eaten by you as damned fine luxuries, you lubbers?
We wouldn't mind if the bread an' molasses was right," cried Fish.
The biscuits are not fit for dogs; and I say that the pork stinks, and that the molasses is grits.
But I guess there's too much molasses mixed with his blood to suit my book.
Add the egg and milk beaten together, add the vanilla, mix the soda in the molasses and add to the first mixture.
I remember some large pipes, and especially a molasses jug, a trunk, and several other things that came from Holland.
Then I came in with cracked hickory nuts, then pop-corn balls, and, finally, molasses candy.
The molasses is received beneath in cisterns, and when they become filled, it is taken out and conveyed into barrels or hogsheads and shipped.
When all the molasses is removed from the cistern, an inferior kind of sugar is re-manufactured, which is called cistern-sugar, and sold at a lower price.
Whereupon the police, the mayor and the public sentiment of the city rose up and declared that, though the heavens fell, no woman should be allowed to sell molasses candy on Sunday.
Coming out of prison, she went into the same business and sold molassescandy on Sunday.
A woman was arrested in the streets of one of our cities for selling molasses candy on Sunday.
Samuels only allowed we four dollars a quintal, and his flour was eight, and molasses seventy cents.
Unlimited spruce beer, brewed with molasses and fortified with "Old Jamaica," flowed from a large barrel during the two days that the celebration lasted.
Ike also discovered that it was good economy constantly to change the location of such things as the tobacco box, butter tub, and molasses jar, for it often meant that the good-natured Emile went without.
This was to force the colonists to buy their sugar and molassesfrom nobody but British sugar planters.
