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treacle

 
Dictionary: trea·cle   (trē'kəl) pronunciation
n.
  1. Cloying speech or sentiment.
  2. Chiefly British. Molasses.
  3. A medicinal compound formerly used as an antidote for poison.

[Middle English triacle, antidote for poison, from Old French, from Latin thēriaca, from Greek thēriakē (antidotos), (antidote against) wild animals, feminine of thēriakos, of wild animals, from thērion, diminutive of thēr, beast.]


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Food and Nutrition: treacle
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First product of refining of molasses from beet or sugar cane extract is black treacle, slightly less bitter; will not crystallize. A 25-g portion is a source of calcium and iron; supplies 65 kcal (270 kJ).

[TREE-kuhl] A term used mainly in Great Britain for the syrupy by-product created during sugar refining. There are two types: dark treacle-which is very much like molasses and which has a somewhat bitter taste, and light treacle, which contains fewer impurities than the dark variety, has a lighter flavor and is also called golden syrup.

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Treacle is the generic name for any syrup made during the refining of sugar cane[1] and is defined as "uncrystallized syrup produced in refining sugar".[2] Treacle is used chiefly in cooking as a form of sweetener or condiment.

The most common forms of Treacle are the pale syrup that is also known as golden syrup and the darker syrup that is usually referred to as dark treacle or black treacle. Dark treacle has a distinctively strong flavour, slightly bitter, and a richer colour than golden syrup, yet not as dark as molasses. Golden syrup is the main sweetener in the Treacle Tart.

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History

Historically, the Middle English term triacle[3] was used by herbalists and apothecaries to describe a medicine (also called theriac or theriaca) — composed of many ingredients — that was used as an antidote treatment for poisons, snakebites or various ailments.[2]

In Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 7, the Dormouse tells a story of Elsie, Lacie and Tilly living at the bottom of a well, which confuses Alice, who interrupts to ask. "The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then said, 'It was a treacle-well.'" When Alice remonstrated, she was stopped by the Mad Hatter's analogy: "You can draw water out of a water-well, so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well." "Alice said very humbly. "I won't interrupt you again. I dare say there may be one".[4]

Production

Treacle is made from syrups that remain after sugar is removed from the refining process. The main object of refining is to increase the purity of all low-grade raw sugars before these are dissolved, so that the resulting liquor may contain the minimum of dissolved non-sugars to be removed by the bone-char treatment. The dark-coloured washings are treated separately from the liquor made by dissolving the affined sugar in water, and are not treated with bone-char. They are boiled to grain in a vacuum pan, forming a low-grade massecuite which is cured in centrifugals, and yields a brown sugar, and a fluid by-product—treacle.[5]

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References

  1. ^ "Treacle Origins and Uses at www.recipes4us.co.uk". http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/Specials%20and%20Holidays/Treacle%20Origin%20Uses%20Recipes.htm. 
  2. ^ a b Oxford Dictionary ISBN 9781851521012
  3. ^ From Old French triacle, derived from Latin theriaca, meaning "antidote to poison" (OED, s.v. "treacle").
  4. ^ Taking Carroll's nonsense seriously, some have imagined that wells or springs believed to contain curative water were known as "treacle wells".
  5. ^ Heriot p 392
  • Heriot, Thomas Hawkins Percy (1920). The manufacture of sugar from the cane and beet. London: Longmans, Green and co.. 

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Translations: Treacle
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - mørk sirup, melasse

Nederlands (Dutch)
stroop

Français (French)
n. - (GB) mélasse, mélasse raffinée

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sirup, Melasse, Süßlichkeit, widerliche Schmeichelei

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μελάσα, πετιμέζι, σιρόπι

Italiano (Italian)
melassa

Português (Portuguese)
n. - melado (m), melaço (m)

Русский (Russian)
патока, (в обращении) слащавость

Español (Spanish)
n. - melaza

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sirap, melass

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
糖蜜, 过分甜蜜的声调, 甜蜜

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 糖蜜, 過分甜蜜的聲調, 甜蜜

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 당밀, 해독제, 달콤한 태도

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 糖蜜, 糖みつ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) دبس ألسكر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דבשה, נוזל דבשי, נוזל הנוצר בעת זיקוק סוכר, רגשנות, חנופה‬


 
 

 

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