Lyle's Black Treacle 454g

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Preheat the oven to 180°C/160° Fan, 350°F, Gas 4 while you sift the flour, spices, bicarbonate of soda and salt together in a bowl. Add the stem ginger and toss to coat. Liquid Sugars. Sugar Australia. Accessed August 2020 at https://www.sugaraustralia.com.au/sugar-australia/products/industrial-products/liquid-sugars/

Return to heat. Gently stir and heat until all sugars are dissolved and liquidy. Simmer gently for 35 to 40 minutes. As for molusses [sic] spirits, if rum is so wholesome that is distilled from the first scum of brown sugar, what must that be which is distilled from the moist clammy part of the sugar when boiled and refined again in England, which is called mollusses [sic], or treacle, only two names for one and the same thing: now the spirit made from treacle must be finer than rum, because refined here, therefore hath not so great a small as rum hath; also age doth admirably help it…. Once upon a time there were three little sisters’, the Dormouse began in a great hurry; ‘ and their names were Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well. O’Connell, Sanjida. Sugar: The Grass that Changed the World. London: Virgin Books Ltd. 2012. Ebook.

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It’s interesting to ponder whether the exploding issue might be related to the Lyle’s brand being sold in tins. W hile the Lyle’s brand is shipped in tins, the CSR brand is shipped in a plastic bottle, with a screw-on plastic cap. This might make the CSR brand more likely to let off any pressure building up in storage gradually. Heating tins of treacle By 1725, as seen in the History section above, treacle was being commonly used to refer to the sugar syrup. Perhaps this is the reason why, in 1728, a writer, writing about treacle the medicinal compound, made sure to distinguish it as Venice treacle: There’s no such thing!’ Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went ‘Sh! Sh!’ and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, ‘If you can’t be civil, you’d better finish the story for yourself’. Throughout the 1700s, in English newspapers it appeared to be increasingly common that when the medicinal treacle was meant, it was referred to as “Venice treacle” (or one of the other qualifiers mentioned earlier), while when just “treacle” was said, the sugar syrup was meant. Sources At St. Margaret’s Church, in Binsey, near Oxford, there is a famous “treacle well”, whose water was thought to have healing properties, and thus it was known as a treacle well.

The use of treacle hath prevailed abundantly within these few years, especially in the country trading towns, where manufacturers are settled, so that many hundred hogsheads a year are used with bread instead of butter, and it being palatable, warm in the stomach, and very nourishing, good in colds, against scurvy, and very nourishing, and (the doctors say) useful in many diseases. It hath this disadvantage in London, ’tis sold very cheap, therefore rich folks do not like it. With its handsome red tin, a partner to the iconic Golden Syrup, there's no mistaking this product is Lyle's through and through. Nutritional values: Typical Values What did they live on?’ said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.

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Add in the next round of sugar (500 g/1.1 lb), as well as the cup of boiling water. Fizzing and bubbling may occur. Dark sugars also may solidify. From this point on in articles, if “treacle” is mentioned in a newspaper article, to determine whether the medicinal or sugar syrup is meant, you have to look for a qualifier such as “Venice”, or judge by the context. How much is being called for — one or two ounces, or a pound or two (the medicinal is used in very small quantities) — or what ingredients is it being used with. The OED further comments on “London treacle”: London Treacle… This seems to have been designed as a Succedaneum [substitute] for the Mithridate, or Venice Treacle, and is that which the Country Apothecaries sell the Farriers under the general Name of Treacle, which many of the latter distinguish from the common Molossus-Treacle, by calling it, The Doctor’s, or the Apothecaries Treacle.” Rare treat ... Jeremy Lee’s beremeal treacle soda bread with smoked salmon. Photograph: Patricia Niven/The Observer

Sugar Kitchen: Your complete usage guide for CSR Sugars and Syrups. Accessed August 2020 at https://csrsugarkitchen.com.au/content/uploads/CSR-SUGAR-KITCHEN-USAGE-GUIDE.pdf In the 1720s, the word treacle was still appearing in some writings with its original sense of a healing liquid or balm (see Language Notes below).In fact, it is made from sugar cane molasses that is refined a bit further, until it has a slightly more burnt, bitter taste than does molasses.

Flavour syrups, particularly golden syrup and treacle are quite stable and have a useful life in excess of 2 years and thus do not require a ‘use by date’. There may be some darkening of golden syrup over time.” [13] Liquid Sugars. Sugar Australia. Op. Cit. This medicinal treacle could be referred to by various qualifiers, which frequently indicated the origin of the preparation. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) says, “In the names of particular kinds, with various qualifications, indicating place of origin, etc.; as treacle of Andromachus = Venice treacle; treacle of Genoa, treacle of Flanders, London treacle, Roman treacle.” The day that the King went to the laboratory at Versailles, to see the drugs that were made use of in the composition of (Venice) treacle, M. Pier, his chief apothecary made this speech to him: Treacle should be stored at ambient temperature, although it may be warmed just prior to usage. Sugar Australia will expect a useful shelf life of 2 years for drums as delivered and remaining in their sealed and unopened containers.”Later that same year, Manbré and Garton was taken over by Tate & Lyle. [22] Ibid. Literature & Lore Googling on “treacle explode”, it appears that explosions of the expired tins, while rare, are not entirely uncommon either. Here’s one food blogger’s experience: