> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:02:48 -0500, "Viva" privacy.net>
> blethered:
>

>>
>>"Ben newsam" gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:2oj3v3hd2u486e0lda22fea7fvj207n2dr@4ax.com...
>>[..]

>>> Golden Syrup is simply sugar syrup. "Partly inverted", as they call
>>> it. WHen I was a kid I called it "Gold and silvup"
>>>
>>>

>>Thanks, we don't have it around here. Once when I was making Treacle Tarts
>>and asked my Brit friend what to use instead of Golden Syrup, she said
>>molasses. They turned out well enough, but Golden Syrup is lighter in
>>flavor
>>I'm told.
>>

>
> See that confuses me - why use golden syrup in treacle tarts? Why not
> use treacle? :-) Mind you, I don't remember seeing treacle in the
> shops for a long while.