Easy Treacle Tart Recipe | Lyle's Golden Syrup (2024)

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Can I use golden syrup instead of treacle? ›

Golden syrup is another possible alternative, with its a honey-like colour and slightly caramelised flavour. Its properties are close enough to molasses or black treacle to use as a 1:1 replacement but expect differences in colour and flavour to your end product.

In the U.S., golden syrup is usually sold under the name of light treacle, but it's not readily available in many grocery stores. In cooking recipes, molasses and light treacle are often used interchangeably because their textures and flavor profiles are similar.

It can be used wherever honey is used, providing a lesser flavour spectrum but saving rather a lot of cost; this would include on porridge, pancakes and waffles, in flapjacks, ginger cakes and similar. To really showcase this ingredient, try making our golden syrup dumplings.

Molasses is the same as treacle just sometimes a bit denser and stickier. While treacle is considered to be a product of the UK, molasses can be made everywhere. Golden syrup can be poured easily but treacle and molasses benefit from standing the tin in a bowl of hot water to loosen the texture out a bit.

In Britain there are two types of glucose syrup under the treacle category: golden syrup (light treacle) and treacle (dark treacle). Both are high in glucose and sucrose. (None as historic as honey of course.) They're sort of analogous to light & dark corn syrups in the US as well as molasses.

Treacle is a generic British term for any syrup made during the refining of sugar cane. Later, refined sugar became more affordable and overtook treacle as a sweetener. However, colonial Americans often substituted molasses for treacle in their recipes.

In the U.S.A. you can buy Lyles Golden Syrup (11.46 ounce) in the International Foods section at Publix.

Both have a deep, aromatic flavour that adds a unique finish to food and drink recipes, but they are subtly different, with treacle tending to be a sweeter product that has less of a bitter profile than molasses. Compared to treacle, molasses is thicker in consistency and darker in colour.

Lyle's Golden Syrup 325g | ALDI.

Lyle's Golden Syrup was founded in 1881 by Scottish businessman Abram Lyle and, according to the company, it was Lyle's religious beliefs that led to the brand's original logo, drawing from the biblical tale of Samson from the Old Testament.

Can I use maple syrup instead of golden syrup? ›

Yes, maple syrup can be used instead of golden syrup in many recipes, however this will result in a slightly different flavour. Golden syrup and maple syrup are generally substituted in a 1:1 ratio, however you may choose to use slightly less maple syrup to maintain texture and consistency.

More commonly known as treacle or black treacle or, in the US as blackstrap molasses, molasses are essentially what is left over after cane sugar is boiled to produce sugar and most of the sugar has been extracted.

Black treacle is a dark, thick syrup that is a byproduct of refining sugar. It is a product of the U.K. and considered to be the British equivalent of molasses, appearing in many of the country's signature food recipes.

No. Molasses are far too dark. They're more akin to Black Treacle, which you will also come across in British recipes. Golden syrup is an inverted sugar syrup which is light golden in colour.

Treacle has a richer colour and a stronger flavour to Golden Syrup and is not quite so sweet. You can use it to replace Golden Syrup in many recipes but it is often used alongside Golden Syrup in recipes such as in our Old English Gingerbread.

Treacle is very similar to Golden Syrup but is not decolourised, leaving a darker colour and stronger, slightly bitter flavour. Treacle is used in baking to add a deep colour and flavour and to add moisture.

The sugar is light brown soft sugar, and I use some black treacle (you can use golden syrup). The flour is standard, I use self raising instead of plain flour and baking powder, and some ground almonds. If you don't want to use nuts, you can use more flour instead of the ground almonds.