Getting ready for fall baking? Take a quick inventory of your pantry to make sure your spices are fresh and you have plenty of molasses, one of the South’s favorite sweeteners. This syrup can vary in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do gingerbread, ginger snaps and baked beans have in common? (Nope, this isn’t the start of a bad joke.) Molasses. The sticky ...

Blackstrap molasses is a byproduct of sugar production. It contains sugar but also beneficial nutrients, including iron. Sugar production starts with boiling sugarcane juice to crystallize the sugar, ...

Warm spices and molasses come together in this cookie recipe in a beautiful flavor medley. The molasses imparts a deeply sweet character balanced by a mix of ginger, cloves and nutmeg. They have a ...

I have never built a gingerbread house. My first and only encounter with gingerbread was as a kid when a piece almost cut the roof of my mouth, and disintegrated into plaster-like crumbs afterward.

The arrival of cool autumn air reminded our ancestors that it was molasses-making time. Generations of Arkansans considered molasses one of the three primary foods -- the three M's -- meat, meal [corn ...