Molasses Question

Have you ever eaten molasses? I never have (not that I know of anyway). I've only had sugar, brown sugar, honey, and maple syrup.

My question is does molasses smell like any of those things? The reason I want to know is that I'm setting out some baits for crickets and apparently they like the scent of molasses and vanilla, but I don't have any molasses in the house and don't want to have to buy a whole bottle for this little experiment.

Any ideas on what I could mix together to help replicate the smell of molasses will be greatly appreciated!

Mo-whatnow?

Have you never had a Pecan Pie? Those are made with mollasses, at least, any of the ones that I have had.

My guess would be that the most close to mollasses on your list there would be the maple syrup.

[Edited on Aug 25, 2005 by ankiel66]

If you mix brown sugar with maple syrup, you'd have what molasses smells like. It's really thick, and smells really sickeningly sweet...like what brown sugar smells like times 10.
Molasses does taste good mixed with butter on biscuits, so if you do end up getting a bottle of it, you may end up liking it.

brown sugar (most of it, unless it's the spendy turbinado sugar) is white sugar with the molasses added back. The molasses is just less strong since the sugar dilutes the flavor.

take the maple syrup and add cinnamon and nutmeg, mostly nutmeg though, it'll be close enough

It isn't expensive enough to worry about, last time I checked.
(1987, I think )

I forgot to mention that I'm the laziest person in the known universe, which is the real reason I won't go to the store today

Molasses tastes much better than crickets.