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Podcast: The Talking Appalachian Podcast
Episode: The Last Run: Molasses-Making in the Mountains
Description: What did you think of this episode?*From the Season 1 Archive*"Molassey," as that smoky, syrupy mixture is known in central Appalachia, is a dying tradition. Appalachians call the process of making molasses a 'stir-off,' and everybody in the community would come by to help or sit around the boiling pan and talk.The word 'molasses' becomes 'lasses' or 'molassey' in the local dialect, a vernacular blend resulting from English, German, and Scotch-Irish migrants who flooded the Appalachian mountains in the 18th and 19th centuries. Molasses-making was an annual event e...