By Kevin Williams
Molasses is an indispensable staple in most Amish kitchens. Â The sweetener can be used to add some jazz to cookies, cakes, brownies, and more. Â Molasses seems to be used extra around the holidays to give baked goods an extra boost. Â I've visited Amish families in Tennessee that make their living off the farming of sorghum. Â So what is the difference between sorghum and molasses? Â Amish Acres provides the answer!Â
Meanwhile, here are 6Â Amish recipes containing molasses that you might want to consider for the holidays!
Amish Holiday Molasses Cookies
AMISH HOLIDAY MOLASSES COOKIES:  These cookies are the "gold standard" for a molasses recipe  Click here for this amazing recipe!
AMISH MOLASSES BROWNIES: Â Yum, give these simple, basic, molasses-infused brownies a try!Â
AMISH PAN-FRIED MOLASSES CHICKEN: Â Not all uses for molasses center around baked goods, this is a super chicken recipe that incorporates with sweetness of molasses with the savory of chicken. Click here for the recipe.
LAND O'LAKES MOLASSES GINGER DROPS: Â Check out these festive cookies from big butter!
VIRGINIAÂ SHOOFLY PIE: Â Of course the absolute royalty of recipes when it comes to the Amish and molasses is "shoofly pie." Â Here is a classic recipe for the confection.
AMISH MOLASSES CAKE: Â I found this recipe online from 2008. Â That's actually kind of old for a blog. Â I think the furthest you can go back on Amish365 is about 5 years. Â I wonder what it will be like 30 - 50 years from now when there is half a century's worth of information all online, you just wonder whether Google will be able to process that all or if something else "searchy" will emerge? Â Anyway, check out this classic cake recipe.
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