Bittersweet Molasses

Molasses

Molasses, also called black treacle, is a viscous byproduct principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar. Molasses varies in the amount of sugar, the method of extraction, and the age of the plant. Sugarcane molasses is usually used to sweeten and flavour foods. Molasses is a major constituent of fine commercial brown sugar.

List of Crayola crayon colors

Since the introduction of Crayola drawing crayons by Binney & Smith in 1903, more than 200 colors have been produced in a wide variety of assortments. The table below represents all of the colors found in regular Crayola assortments from 1903 to the present. Since the introduction of fluorescent crayons in the 1970s, the standard colors have been complemented by a number of specialty crayon assortments, represented in subsequent tables.

bittersweet

Adjective

1. Both bitter and sweet.
2. Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.

Noun

1. Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
2. Bittersweetness.

molasses

Noun

1. A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
2. Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.

Verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of molass