Treacle is an old term once used by herbalists and apocatharies to describe a medicine composed of many ingredients, or one used as a treatment for poisons, snakebites or various ailments. In this time wells or springs believed to contain curative water were known as "treacle wells". The name is derived from the Old French triacle, in turn from Latin theriaca, meaning “antidote to poison”.

Nowadays, it has acquired a new meaning in the public consciousness. Used chiefly in cooking as a form of sweetener, it is a thick, dark syrup produced during raw Sugarcane refining. Sugarcane ( Saccharum) is a genus of 6 to 37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation of tall perennial grasses (family Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae It has a distinctively strong flavour, slightly bitter, and a richer colour than Golden syrup, yet not as dark as Molasses. Golden syrup is a thick amber-colored form of Inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining Sugar cane juice into Sugar, or by treatment of Molasses or Treacle is a thick Syrup by-product from the processing of the Sugarcane or Sugar beet into Sugar.

Production

Treacle is made from syrups that remain after white sugar is removed from the refining process. The sugar cane is crushed, then the juice boiled to specific consistencies for crystallization (Sugar), Treacle being one of a group of named syrups extracted during this process. Sugar is a class of edible Crystalline substances mainly Sucrose, Lactose, and Fructose.

See also

• Theriaca, a medicinal compound formerly in wide use as a remedy against poison. For the radiation therapy machine involved in several accidents see Therac-25.
• Treacle of Andromachus, a honey or molasses-based antivenom. Venice treacle, also called Andromachi Theriaca, Theriacum Andromachi' or treacle of Andromachus, in Pharmacy, was a Honey
• Treacle mining
• Golden syrup
• Molasses
• Treacle Performance

External Links

Old 'Recipes4us' page "Treacle Origin"

CSR Sugar company of Australia - Treacle

Sugar Australia website - refiner and marketer for CSR limited.

Treacle mining is the (fictitious Mining of Treacle (similar to Molasses) in a raw form similar to coal Golden syrup is a thick amber-colored form of Inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining Sugar cane juice into Sugar, or by treatment of Molasses or Treacle is a thick Syrup by-product from the processing of the Sugarcane or Sugar beet into Sugar.

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