Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge - old molasses! or jam!

[Bramblefind]

Found this little beauty today under my parents' back lawn. It was near a 1920s fork and a 1920 wheat penny so my guess it is generally from that era. Maybe 1930s, 1940s?

It is about 3 1/2" tall and cap is 1 1/2" diameter. The bottom does have some lettering I can't make it out confidently but maybe reads "Folse" ? That might just be the glass jar manufacturer though. But may be a clue.

Now I do love a word game and I thought about trying to tackle this one on my own. But the weather is so beautiful right now that I'd rather spend my free time outside digging up gems like this!

Any ideas as to what might have been the contents and what that word at the bottom is?

Thanks!

 

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[Lucas]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge

Looks like a molasses jar.

Taste it and see.

 

[BerntOut]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge

Looks like an old jar full of rancid jelly or could be molasses.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge

I would say Molasses as well

 

[traderoftreasures]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge

looks like dippings from the gulf of "texico" spill

 

[Bramblefind]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge

Looks like a molasses jar.

Taste it and see.

Ah cookies!

Thank you all for the molasses idea. My mother and I could only think of ink but it didn't look right for that.

I am so NOT opening the jar but I do wonder if molasses is sort of like honey and is a preservative.

I bet Lucas knows

 

[Monty]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge - old molasses!

Molasses was the left over sludge from boiling sugar cane to make rum at first. Then when it was found to taste good, farmers grew it for just the molasses and threw out the liquid. As a result, a better type of cane was developed just to make molasses and it is called sorghum. Now it is mostly grown for cow food. There are fields of it growing in west Texas or at least there was when I lived there in the 1960s. You can get molasses plain or sulphured, some medicinal quality I guess? (I don't know this info to be gospel truth, it's just what a farmer told me on a farm outside of Lubbock, Texas). He grew sorghum and cotton. I dated his daughter and their house was much smaller than their barn that held 3 tractors valued at over a hundred thousand dollars each! The short love affair didn't work out and I couldn't picture myself as a farmer. Probably a bad decision? So, who wanted the history lesson anyway?
M nty

 

[traderoftreasures]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge - old molasses!

dairy farmers use sorghum to sweeten the milk in their cows

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge - old molasses!

In the cuisines of the Middle East, molasses is produced from several other materials: carob, grapes, dates, pomegranates, and mulberries.

 

[traderoftreasures]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge - old molasses!

also there are some jars like that in basement of my parents house, with the same looking substance and they never did put up any molasses. i would suspect that it is jelly with some sort of rotted botulism.

 

[Bramblefind]

Re: Anything more you can tell me about this jar of sludge - old molasses!

also there are some jars like that in basement of my parents house, with the same looking substance and they never did put up any molasses. i would suspect that it is jelly with some sort of rotted botulism.

You might be right... now that I look at it and ponder the jar size does seem more fitting for jam/jelly type item. Any molasses I have seen has been in a bigger jar. But I am no molasses expert

Though the reason I am stopping by my parents house (where I found this) is because I have been feeding their horses. A main component of their feed is a mixture called "Trim" - we always called it "Sweet Feed" and I believe it is oats and pellets mixed in with some sort of molasses.

So, who wanted the history lesson anyway?

I love it! Thanks for the input everyone