Make Homemade Butterscotch
A very simple recipe for an age-old delicious candy.Some have documented that "buttery toffee" is often called butterscotch—Scotch being an old adjective for Scotland—which suggests it was invented in the country.
Ingredients
- 1/2 to 1 cup (100 to 200g) sugar
- 1 tablespoon (15g) butter
- Cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Water
Steps
- Take the sugar and put it into a pot.
- Pour in some water. About enough to cover the sugar
- Turn the stove top onto high so the water starts to boil.
- Start stirring the sugar right away to keep it from sticking to the bottom and turning into toffee.
- Keep stirring and adding water until the sugar and water mixture turns into a Brown syrupy mixture. What you have now made is a simple syrup.
- Remove from heat.
- Add the butter and stir it into the syrup. Also add a shot of cream and a teaspoon of vanilla.
- Put back onto the stove but heat it until it's at the "soft crack" stage. The soft crack stage is about 270-290°F or 132-143°C. You should have a concentration of about 95% sugar. If you heat it too long then it will turn into toffee.
- Keep heating until it is thick but still fluid.
- Immediately pour it into a bowl or container. Make sure you keep stirring it otherwise it will thicken and become a toffee like substance.
- Let the butterscotch cool
- Enjoy the great taste of butterscotch.
Tips
- You can add Butterscotch as a sweetener for coffee or use it as a topping for Ice cream.You can also make butterscotch ice cream by mixing it into plain ice cream and freezing it overnight
Warnings
- Butterscotch will get very hot; it helps to have a helper. If you are a kid, make sure you have parental supervision.
Things You'll Need
- Container for storage.
- Pot
- Stirring utensil
- Stove
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