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long sweetening en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (Southern-US, uncountable) A viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.
   • Reach me some of that long sweetening, honey, she'd say at the breakfast table. 1989, Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies:
   • Made our molasses into long sweetening and tapped the sugartrees for short sweetening. 1959, Leonard W. Roberts, “Jim Couch, His Family Story”, in Up Cutshin & down Greasy: folkways of a Kentucky mountain family, page 8:
   • Mr. Hurst made the best of the situation and drank his molasses-sweetened coffee with seeming relish, as though he had been raised on long sweetening. 1974, John Quincy Wolf, Life in the Leatherwoods:
   • Long Sweetening is its just and proper name, but by Molasses better known to fame. 1822, John Davis, The American Mariners: Or, The Atlantic Voyage. A Moral Poem ..., US: Brodie and Dowding, page 162, lines 332-3:

Relateds

short sweetening