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Molasses

This is the saccharine principle in the dregs or refuse drainings from the casks, etc., of sugar, and the uncrystallisable part of the juice of the cane separated from the sugar during the process of granulation. It consists of sugar prevented from crystallising by acids, and saline and other matters. On account of its cheapness, molasses is much employed as an article of domestic economy. It is considered very whole-some, and children are generally very fond of it. A French writer has shown that it may be deprived of its peculiar taste by boiling it with pulverised charcoal for half an hour; the saccharine liquor is then strained from the charcoal, when its flavour is found equal to that of sugar.