Molasses

This isn’t a recipe, but more a note to say molasses are awesome. We’re not talking here about the bootstrap treacle sort of molasses, although their sherbetty sweetness does of course have a time and a place. We are talking about fruit molasses. Pomegranate, tamarind, damson, etc. These are the reduced, thickened juices of fruit, and they are sweet and sour dynamite.

Pour some over ice cream, churn some into ice cream, drink it from the bottle for all we care. The point is, buy molasses, use it on your desserts, use it in salad dressings, we use the pomegranate version, on all our Spuds side dishes at The Sandwich Shop. And often use the tamarind one on our puddings. It is similar to pomegranate but darker and more bitter, which helps temper the sweetness of things.