Is the high cost of maintaining a sweet tooth getting you down? Well, all over the South at this time of year, folks make a homegrown sugar substitute you might take kindly to: sweet sorghum molasses.
Molasses is an easy-to-process, healthful food rich in iron, sulfur, and other minerals which can replace sugar or honey in many recipes. Its flavor is quite different from that of store-bought molasses (a sugar making by-product which has a strong aftertaste). Sorghum sweetening is more delicate, with a Country-morning quality and just a hint of sweet earth.
If you’d like to boil your own sweetening next fall, why not think about putting in some sorghum come planting time? Although the crop is traditionally a southern specialty, it will grow anywhere corn flourishes . . . and only a quarter of an acre plus a little patience will supply your family with 10 to 15 gallons of good molasses.
Read More: Grow Your Own Sweet Sorghum to Make Molasses – Real Food – MOTHER EARTH NEWS.