Make mine molasses, Dark, sweet syrup adds nostalgia to holiday baking

From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: December 21, 2003| Author: Robert J. Byers and Tara Tuckwiller | Copyright information

In January 1919, a 14,000-ton tank of molasses burst and sent a 30- foot wall of ooze rampaging through downtown Boston. It crushed a firehouse, flung horses and wagons into the air, and molassesed 21 people to death.

Up to that time, molasses had been America's No. 1 sweetener. But within six years of the Boston disaster, sales of the sticky syrup were slower than molasses in January. (Sorry.)

But molasses' decline had less to do with bad publicity, and more to do with money. B...

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