Molasses Substitute - cooking recipe

Ingredients

To make 1 cup of molasses
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons cream of tartar
1/4 cup hot water (or other liquid in recipe)

Preparation

Combine sugar and cream of tartar with hot water. If you are making a recipe that calls for a liquid, omit the hot water and just add the sugar and molasses.
If there are other spices in the recipe, increase them just a bit to compensate for the loss of molasses flavor.