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Treacle..Yes or no?!

Was going to make Nigellas slow baked black treacle ham..discovered tin of treacle expired in 2012..use it or bin it? Xx
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  • tizerbelle
    tizerbelle Posts: 1,921 Forumite
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    Use it*


    *unless it is furry or fizzing.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    It'll be fine. Even if it looks a bit "gritty", it'll still be fine once cooked. That stuff can survive nuclear wars.
  • It never goes out of date, but it can grow mould (fur) or ferment (fizz). So fur or fizz, chuck it, otherwise it'll be fine.
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  • SailorSam
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    How did we manage before 'use by' dates ?
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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    SailorSam wrote: »
    How did we manage before 'use by' dates ?

    Everybody died back then. If you can find anybody alive that was born before 1890 to disprove what I say ..... then I'll admit I might be wrong.
  • Callie22
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    If it's never been opened then it'll be fine - it's pure sugar so unlikely to kill you, and you're cooking it for so long that anything will probably expire anyway. I read the other day that some scientists ate a 46 year-old Christmas pudding so treacle that's three years out of date is positively juvenile compared to that.
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    use it - I would.
  • suki1964
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    Everybody died back then. If you can find anybody alive that was born before 1890 to disprove what I say ..... then I'll admit I might be wrong.



    That's it. I'm officially adopting you to replace my great aunt Pat
  • theoretica
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    If it hasn't exploded (fermentation - build up of pressure - flying lid and mess) you are probably fine.
    But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,
    Had the whole of their cash in his care.
    Lewis Carroll
  • I just used some that had a date of some time in 2010 and it was fine. Mind you we only just finished the huge batches of marmalade that I made in 2000 when my dad had his heart bypass ( had to do something whilst waiting for mum to phone).
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