What type of plant is molasses usually made from?
Molasses by detective Allan Pinkerton in 1877. The exaggerated health benefits sometimes claimed for blackstrap molasses were the topic of a 1951 novelty song, "Black Strap Molasses", recorded by Groucho Marx, Jimmy Durante, Jane Wyman, and Danny Kaye. Molasses made from sugar beets differs from sugarcane molasses. Only the syrup left from the final crystallization stage is called molasses. Intermediate syrups are called high green and low green, and these are recycled within the crystallization plant to maximize extraction. Beet molasses is 50% sugar by dry weight, predominantly sucrose, but contains significant amounts of glucose and fructose. Beet molasses is limited
Great Molasses Flood from the frigid temperatures of the preceding days. Molasses can be fermented to produce rum and ethanol, the active ingredient in other alcoholic beverages and a key component in the manufacturing of munitions. The stored molasses was awaiting transfer to the Purity plant situated between Willow Street and what is now named Evereteze Way, in Cambridge. At about 12:30 in the afternoon near Keany Square, at 529 Commercial Street, a molasses tank tall, in diameter, and containing as much as , collapsed. Witnesses variously reported that as it collapsed they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long