Talk:Treacle

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The folloing should be merged with the article on molasses

The term has been in use since the 17th century. Originally in England it referred to a medicinal antidote composed of many ingredients, including honey. Treacle and honey were used as medicines and to sweeten medicines before refined white cane sugar made its way to England for the first time in the 13th century.'

When sugar first arrived it was scarce and expensive. It slowly became more widely available and affordable to all people. Sugar then began to replace treacle in medicinal usages and by the 17th century it was a European food. Sugar also replaced honey in other uses such as a food preservative. It became easier and cheaper to use sugar to pack meat and sugar was also better at the task. Sugar was also easier to find than treacle and less work had to be done by the consumer to transport and maintain sugar.

This information is from the essay "Time, Sugar, and Sweetness" by Sidney W. Mintz.

An early version of Pop Goes the Weasel contains a reference to treacle.

--67.101.97.33 09:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I dont think treacle is either molasses or golden syrup

treacle; the residue from the second stage of crystallization of raw sugar, less bitter and viscous than molasses. an edible treacle is produced by filtering dilute molasses through cloth and charcoal.