What do gingerbread, ginger snaps and baked beans have in common? (Nope, this isn’t the start of a bad joke.) Molasses. The sticky-sweet brown syrup is something of a kitchen hero: It makes cookies ...

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Molasses might be one of the South's favorite cooking ingredients—what's not to love about sugary syrup? While molasses, a cooked sugar syrup, is used in several cooking applications, the most popular ...

Here's what to use when you've run out of molasses. Cane syrup is the best substitute for molasses, used in a 1:1 ratio, although it lacks the intensity of molasses. Sorghum syrup can also be used in ...