Sorghum Molasses
What makes it different from other molasses'?
What does it taste like?
Is there an ideal substitute if I can't find it?
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You can see why we get a little confusion on the question. I keep a dictionary by the computer in case there is a hair to split...
Here's more information than you may need. Basically, sorghum syrup is evaporated from the juice pressed from sweet sorghum, a grain. Sorghum molasses combines this syrup with molasses processed from sugar cane -- a byproduct of sugar refining.
I had it years ago, and as I remember it was along the lines of the Sugar Daddy taste. If you want to move away from cane products, I think that malted grain syrups would be closer in taste (rice malt, barley malt, corn malt, and mixtures of these). It was a traditional sweetener in parts of the South, as molasses was in New England.