In the thread on sweetners I mentioned I had found something on period grocery lists called "Golden Syrup" that I didn't know how to explain. Well working on my next column for "The Shootist" the NCOWs magazine I am working on an expaned version of sweetners of the period and found the answer doing some research. Quoting my column:
One other minor source of sweetening, but it does show up on some grocery lists of the period is something called Golden Syrup, or in England it is called treacle. (Sometime the word treacle is erroneously used for molasses.) This is syrup made from sugar cane syrup, similar to modern corn syrup, in which an enzyme is use to split the sucrose molecule into 2 molecules, one fructose and one glucose, this makes a sweeter product that is similar in sweetness to honey.