Steen's cane syrup has been made since 1910 in which Louisiana city?

Steen’s cane syrup has been made since 1910 in Abbeville, Louisiana.

The syrup is produced by C. S. Steen’s Syrup Mill, a long-running Louisiana maker whose bright yellow label became widely recognizable. Steen’s is traditional cane syrup rather than molasses: cane juice is concentrated by prolonged cooking, without refining away the syrup’s characteristic flavor.

The open-kettle process produces a dark, caramel-like sweetener with a distinctive slightly bitter and sulfurous edge. Cane syrup became one of the foundational flavors of southern Louisiana cooking, appearing in biscuits, pancakes, desserts, glazes, marinades, and savory dishes.

A frequent mix-up is confusing cane syrup with refined sugar products or assuming that all dark syrups are molasses. Molasses is generally a by-product of sugar refining, while traditional cane syrup comes from concentrating sugar-cane juice directly. Abbeville’s association with Steen’s therefore connects a specific company, place, and century-old production tradition.