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Butterscotch is a type of confection whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter. Some recipes include cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century Yorkshire, used treacle (molasses) in place of, or in addition to, sugar.
 Butterscotch sweets | |
| Type | Confectionery |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | England |
| Region or state | Doncaster, Yorkshire |
| Main ingredients | Brown sugar, butter |
Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, not hard crack. Often credited with their invention, S. Parkinson & Sons of Doncaster made butterscotch boiled sweets and sold them in tins, which became one of the town's best-known exports. They became famous in 1851 after Queen Victoria was presented with a tin when she visited the town. Butterscotch sauce, made of butterscotch and cream, is used as a topping for ice cream (particularly sundaes).
The term "butterscotch" is also often used more specifically for the flavour of brown sugar and butter together, even if the actual confection butterscotch is not involved, such as in butterscotch pudding (a type of custard).
English
Etymology
From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbʌtəˌskɒtʃ/
- Hyphenation: but‧ter‧scotch
Noun
butterscotch (usually uncountable
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