What's the difference between treacle and treacly?
Treacle
Definition:
(n.) A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.
(n.) A sovereign remedy; a cure.
(n.) Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.
(n.) A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) For me, Kitson is at his best when ( as the New York Times said of It's Always Right Now) "he seasons the treacle with grit".
(2) For the pani pol filling, cook the golden syrup, palm sugar and spices until the treacle is boiling, and the sugar dissolves – approximately five minutes.
(3) Serves 8–10 For the sweet pastry 110g butter, softened 135g caster sugar 1 tsp baking powder 225g strong flour, plus extra for dusting A pinch of salt 125ml double cream For the filling 225g golden syrup 50g dark treacle 220ml double cream 75g oatmeal or fresh white breadcrumbs 2 eggs, beaten 1 tbsp lemon juice Extra-thick or clotted cream, to serve 1 For the pastry, cream the butter and sugar together.
(4) It wasn't a baked Alaska, a fruit tart, a cream-laden trifle or a steamed treacle sponge.
(5) Miss South ( northsouthfood.com ) Serves 4 1kg beef short ribs For the marinade 4cm piece of root ginger, finely grated 1 tbsp maple syrup, honey or treacle 4 tsp Marmite 1 tbsp kecap manis (Malaysian sweet soy sauce) Juice of 1 lime 1 tbsp Chinese five-spice powder 1 Make your marinade by mixing all the ingredients together in a shallow dish: it should be thick enough to stick to the meat, but not gloopy, so add more lime juice if necessary.
(6) But some 2,000-year-old treacle brown remains made up of recycled scraps of Egyptian papyrus , torn up to encase the reptile, hide hard evidence of a substantial historical cover-up.
(7) Can we talk about Brimstone and Treacle, the vision of a devil ... Ah, Brimstone and Treacle was ... Can I break off for a second?
(8) Traditional Sri Lankan pani pol recipes use a palm treacle base, but Kuruvita insists that golden syrup is a great substitute, and that the alarmingly large quantity still applies: "It may seem like a lot, but it's a very dense liquid."
(9) Everything in PPE is so laboriously slow, it feels like wading through treacle.
(10) Rarely seen in western dress and never in a suit, he is supposed to enjoy a traditional country breakfast of buffalo milk curd and cane sugar treacle.
(11) The warm bath of mutualised treacle that swilled around Westminster at the beginning of the week has turned toxic.
(12) The days when it goes badly are like wading through treacle, but when it goes well it's like surfing a wave.
(13) Honey treacle tart Cook - Ruby Tandoh's honey treacle tart recipe.
(14) 2 Briefly beat the treacle or honey into the buttermilk (or yoghurt) and, using a fork, gradually add this mixture into the flour mix until a soft dough is formed.
(15) Manchester youngsters who answer with a resounding "no" when asked whether their sporting heros eat chocolate, are astonished when shown a video of City defender Micah Richards' fridge, with a small treacle toffee pudding alongside fruit and vegetables, as a treat for when he has worked hard.
(16) Recipe supplied by Helen Graves, helengraves.co.uk Norfolk treacle tart This deeper, lighter version of treacle tart has a subtle hint of lemon.
(17) Nevertheless, it was a place I felt I might go to once and one of these days , to have a silver-domed trolley wheeled to the table – the dome pushed back dramatically to reveal the joint, the beef to be expertly sliced by the carver – and then to think about ordering a treacle sponge.
(18) Meanwhile, make the filling: mix the golden syrup, treacle, double cream, oatmeal and eggs together, then stir in the lemon juice.
(19) Here and there great piles of glistening, treacle-dark sludge have apparently been dredged out.
(20) I fear that our interests are about to be sacrificed.” Previous UN climate change forums, where dreary jargon often pours treacle over any sense of urgency, have been enlivened by entreaties from Pacific island leaders.
Treacly
Definition:
(a.) Like, or composed of, treacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sundew use beads of treacly glue to trap flies on their finger-like leaves.
(2) Despite some adverse reviews – the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it a "treacly, tepid heartwarmer" – One Chance represents a significant step forward for the film-making ambitions of BGT co-creator Simon Cowell.
(3) On immobilized rabbits during long-term electrical stimulation of the negative defence emotiogenic centers of the hypothalamus there was treaced development of the arterial hypertension from a transient phase of the struggle between pressor and depressor mechanisms to the phase of a stable dominance of pressor influences and effect on heart activity, including development of a sharp myocardial infarction.
(4) Life rolls along at a treacly pace; there’s an unnerving stillness to the landscape.
(5) Blur won that particular battle, but lost the war badly when their rivals' treacly 'Wonderwall' shot them through the roof.
(6) In 1971, Cash recorded the Man In Black album, the title song containing a somewhat melodramatic declaration of intent: "I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, living in the hopeless, hungry side of town I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime... " Cash was growing into his persona as American icon and beacon of integrity, even if there were those who found the Johnny and June act somewhat overloaded with treacly religiosity.
(7) Where to eat There are treacly, spice-filled Dona Amélia tartlets to be scoffed (through a mist of icing sugar) at O Forno (Rua São João 67), and groceries to be bought for the pleasure of it in Basilio Simões ’ atmospheric old emporium on Rua Direita.
(8) Because, surely, that treacly sentiment is a lie: no sibling relationship would emerge psychically unscathed from such a contest as the one that David and Ed fought.