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Treacle

Posted December 2014 
by admin 

The word used in England for “molasses” (the original English word for the substance) beginning in the late seventeenth century. What happened, it seems, is that, in England, a popular medicinal syrup or paste called treacle came to be formulated with cheap molasses rather than the original honey. The word then came to designate molasses generally.

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