Molasses And The Louisiana Purchase

Molasses barbecue sauce recipe below

In many places molasses was used as a feed for chattel given to both livestock and enslaved Africans. After the American Revolution and the Louisiana Purchase, sugar cultivating in the continental United States became far more diversified. In the nineteenth century, Florida and Louisiana continued to produce large amounts of sugarcane for national and international markets, but states like Virginia and Alabama produced sugar cane only for local consumption. For example, a U.S. Department of Agriculture study done in 1895 and 1896 shows African American farmers in Tuskegee County, Alabama dedicated some of their fields to raising sugar cane and sweet sorghum grass, which they “used to make molasses for home consumption.” With the weather getting warmer, let me suggest a molasses barbecue sauce recipe.

Molasses barbecue sauce recipe



Ingredients

1 cup ketchup

1/2 cup molasses

1/4 cup vinegar

1/4 cup Dijon mustard

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 fresh crushed garlic clove.

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/4 teaspoon hot sauce



Method

Combine all ingredients in a bowl mix well and use like any other barbecue sauce.