molasses flood

• Sweet 'N' Slow

Molasses has some pretty interesting nutritional benefits. Once upon a time, folks like Granny [Clampett] put molasses on toast as a nutritional supplement -- and for good reason. Just 15 ml (1 tablespoon) contain 6 per cent of a day's recommended intake of iron, 4 per cent of magnesium, and 2 per cent of vitamin B6. That same tablespoon is worth 60 calories, compared to refined white sugar at 45 calories a tablespoon, which only provides carbohydrates and nothing else. There are lots of recipe sites online, but if you're looking for hard copy, old cookbooks seem to be the best source for molasses recipes, probably because molasses was more commonly used a few decades back. (That's partly because molasses was cheaper than refined sugar.) Virtually none of the contemporary cookbooks I lo...

...'s book Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. There are lots of sites that cover this s...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 22, 2009

• The historical roots of a frontier alcohol culture: Alaska and Northern Canada.

... Natives how to make "hootzenoo" or molasses rum. The distilled beverage, came to be known as "... region of the Yukon in 1896 brought such a flood of gold seekers, that while the peak of the rush h...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2010, March 2010

• Change Brewing at Only Local Tea Room

When I wrote in last week's column about foods with only a single local source I'd forgotten about Two A Tea, our one and only tea room. I'd reviewed it about a year and a half ago, in response to a reader who'd asked for a tea room recommendation, and I'm writing about it again now -- much sooner than I'd intended to -- because another reader informed me that there was a For Sale sign outside the building. It's a charming little old house, oozing Victorian gentility, with handsome velour-upholstered chairs and glass tables set with linen place mats and napkins. The set afternoon tea, at $9.99, comprises four two-bite sandwiches, four equally dainty dainties -- they vary daily, but usually include a piece of minty chocolate fudge -- and a fine, crumbly scone (the Devonshire cream is jus...

...: a Scottish ginger cake, dark with molasses and sparked by the occasional sliver of candied gi...Finally -- in response to the flood of requests for information about Oceana, which cl...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 15, 2009