Treacle

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Just went to buy some treacle for baking and realised that lyle have captured the market as there is no one else makes it
no own brand treacle
unless someone knows different .......

Has there ever been own brand treacle? My mum was a great one for own brands, but we only ever had lyles.

Silverspoon brand sells treacle

Is there a difference between treacle and molasses?

I am making gingerbread soon and just checked my supplies. The beautiful red and gold tin of Lyle's treacle is sitting on my worktop alongside the equally beautiful green and gold Tate & Lyle golden syrup tin.

Remember to use the tins as pen/utensil/cutlery holders....

Tesco sells their own brand treacle

I would only ever use Lyles though but I suppose I might not matter if you're baking with it

I couldnt find an own brand, can you post a link to the tesco own brand please

found that on amazon , thank you , its quite expensive though

It's not on there now but I looked for treacle only the other day and they had their own brand in a squeezy bottle.

They don't even have Lyles golden treacle on there at the moment. Only black treacle. So I guess they just don't have any at the moment but keep trying

Sorry my mistake Yes they do have it under golden syrup not treacle.

They have Lyles too

It's only Lyles that makes black treacle though if your after treacle molasses

Golden syrup is not treacle

Well it is to me

They are totally different aren't they? I'm glad you said that, I thought it was just me.

Off topic, but intrigued as to what else you would do with treacle that didn't involve baking? I'm very prepared to look like a fool when a million suggestions roll in but for the life of me I can't think of any

Sainsburys definitely do Golden Syrup (although it does not taste as good as Lyle's)

I know that treacle tart is really golden syrup tart of course - but treacle to me is the black stuff in a red tin (invariably Tate & Lyle brand in our cupboard when I was a child in the 1970s.)

Black treacle was used in the Christmas Cake and to make bonfire/treacle toffee, and for the rest of the time just sat there stickily in the 'baking stuff' cupboard. (Although IIRC we also went through a phase of making a treacly drink which was a blob of treacle in a mug topped up with freshly boiled water - thankfully a very short-lived fad.)

Golden syrup (Tate & Lyle again, but in the green tin) was used far more frequently in sponge puddings and other things.

You dip a spoon in it and eat it off the spoon.... Or is that just me? 😳

You can use treacle as part of a substitute for balsamic vinegar in cooking. Which itself is a substitute for red wine. I'm a disorganised cook!

You can also use treacle to glaze a ham!

I like golden syrup drizzled over ice-cream, it goes sort of hard and is jolly tasty.

I'd definitely assume someone mean black treacle if they said treacle to me.

Non-baking stuff like cornflake/rice krispie cakes and maybe drizzled on pancakes. Oh and also on porridge.

Other than those...not much

See!

They sounds like vehicles for golden syrup rather than treacle though.

Of course - I'm getting muddled up. Doh