SC - Treacle Pie

[Liam Fisher]

>That's complicated. C. Anne Wilson, in _Food and Drink in Britain_,
>discusses the relevant history, but is a bit vague about exact dates.
>I think "treacle" was originally a medicinal, possibly based on sugar
>refining residue, and the term got transferred (in England, not
>America) to molasses when they became available as a cheap sweetener,
>somewhere near or just after the end of our period.

Yeah. it also generally refers to whatever is left after any kind
of sugar production, which was something I forgot.  Sugar cane just
produces the best quality of treacle, but you get it from beets and other 
sources as well.  In the URL I posted earlier today it listed a site which 
referenced a Saint performing a miracle at a Treacle Well, or a well that 
seemingly had nasty tasting but supposedly curative waters...so I'm disposed 
to believing that in period that Treacle would refer to a nasty tasting 
rememdy and then got applied to the sugar by-product as although sweet, I 
wouldn't just want to eat it
alone because it's fairly disgusting that way as you know.


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