Treacle is known as molasses in some parts of the world and it features in a number of Scottish recipes.
Ingredients:
8 oz self-raising flour (all-purpose flour with baking powder in USA)
2 oz butter
1 oz caster sugar (fine granulated sugar)
Half a teaspoon of cinnamon
2 tablespoons black treacle (molasses) or golden syrup (light corn syrup)
Pinch of salt
Approximately quarter pint of milk
Method:
Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the butter.
Mix in the sugar, cinnamon, treacle or syrup and enough milk to make a soft dough.
Knead this on a floured surface until it is both moist and elastic.
Cut into rounds with a 2.5 inch pastry cutter.
Grease a baking sheet (cookie sheet) and place the rounds on this.
Brush with a little milk and bake for 10/15 minutes in an oven, pre-heated to 425F/220C/Gas Mark 7 until golden brown.
Allow to cool on a wire cooling rack
Serve split in half with butter.