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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: British Food
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:45:34 -0400
  Might be useful for making southern pecan pie. Substitute Lyle's Golden
syrup for Karo syrup. I suspect they are very similar i.e. sickeningly
sweet. To be taken in small doses only by those with a muscular pancreas.

Charlie

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>      I spent most of yesterday driving around with a friend on one of our
> occasional bargain hunting expeditions, plundering thrift stores and marked
> down items in grocery stores.  In one of the latter I came across a large
> quantity of cans (tins) of Lyle's Golden Syrup, aka "Treacle".  This stuff
> is made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into
> sugar, and is often used as a substitute for honey.  It is horribly sweet.
>
>      It has been in constant production since 1885, and in 2006 it was
> recognised by Guinness World Records as having the world's oldest branding
> and packaging.
>
>      In the 1950s my grandmother would send two packages a year filled
> with all sorts of British confections, including two 1-quart cans of this
> stuff.  We would spread it over bread and butter as a snack.  I'm
> surpriswed that I didn't suffer any long-term effects from all that sugar.
>
>      I bought four cans.  Now I need to find some coarse-grained bread.
>
> Chris
>
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