Molasses vs. Syrup

Main Difference

The main difference between Molasses and Syrup is that the Molasses is a viscous by-product of the refining of sugarcane, grapes, or sugar beets into sugar, often used in cookie baking and Syrup is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water

• Molasses

  Molasses () or black treacle (British English) is a viscous product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies by amount of sugar, method of extraction, and age of plant. Sugarcane molasses is primarily used for sweetening and flavoring foods in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. Molasses is a defining component of fine commercial brown sugar.Sweet sorghum syrup may be colloquially called “sorghum molasses” in the southern United States. Molasses has a stronger flavor than most alternative syrups.

• Syrup

  In cooking, a syrup or sirup (from Arabic: شراب‎; sharāb, beverage, wine and Latin: sirupus) is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. Its consistency is similar to that of molasses. The viscosity arises from the multiple hydrogen bonds between the dissolved sugar, which has many hydroxyl (OH) groups, anSyrup can be made by dissolving sugar in water or by reducing naturally sweet juices such as cane

  Syrups can be made by dissolving sugar in water or by reducing naturally sweet juices such as cane juice, sorghum juice, maple sap or agave nectar. Corn syrup is made from corn starch using an enzymatic process that converts it to sugars.

• Syrup (noun)

  a thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in boiling water, often used for preserving fruit.

• Syrup (noun)

  a thick, sweet liquid containing medicine or used as a drink

  “cough syrup”

• Syrup (noun)

  a thick, sticky liquid obtained from sugar cane as part of the processing of sugar.

• Syrup (noun)

  excessive sweetness or sentimentality of style or manner

  “Mr Gurney’s poems are almost all of them syrup”

• Syrup (noun)

  a wig

  “he has been bald for the past twenty years, his shame concealed by a syrup of some opulence”