stenchel noun molasses, water and ground ginger, to go on porridge or as a drink in the field CANADA
It was also used as a drink, chiefly in haying time: 1 cup of mol-asses, 1 cup of vinegar, 2 tbls ginger, 1 gal. water. — T. K Pratt, oral citationfromTheDictionaryofPrinceEdwardIslandEnglish, p. 147, 1988