[Sca-cooks] nutmeg leaves

[TerryDecker]

Molasses is a byproduct of sugar refining.  Sugar has been refined since 
roughly the 5th Century BCE.  Sugar cane was being grown and being refined 
in Europe by the 9th Century, so molasses showed up in Europe by at least 
the 9th Century.  According to the log of Columbus's first voyage, molasses 
was being carried as a foodstuff/trade good.

Bear

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Maybe I'm wrong about when molasses (from sugar) showed up in Europe. I'd 
assumed late 17th C. for reasons similar to that above.

Stefan