Melaza is pancake syrup?

Question

I was taught melaza meant pancake syrup as a child, is this wrong?

Answer 1

I read several articles on molasses. None mentioned its use as pancake syrup, but it is a sweetener. Here is a recipe for making a molasses syrup for pancakes. Notice that it mixes the molasses with white and brown sugars.

You can also see from the dictionaries below that melaza can refer to dregs of honey. One would suppose that could be used as a pancake syrup, but in general it is not referring to pancake syrups like maple syrup, blueberry syrup, etc.

melaza

R A E melaza

molasses

regular dark molasses

Answer 2

If you like mollases on your pancakes, I guess you could call it syrup, but I know cough and pancake syrup as jarabe,