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Caramel's cozier cousin — butter and brown sugar, never apologizing for either.
means A sticky-sweet candy or sauce made by melting butter with brown sugar, traditionally cooked to a hard, buttery crack.
from First recorded in the 1800s in English (notably associated with Doncaster, England, which still has its own famous butterscotch sweets). The 'scotch' isn't about Scotland — it likely comes from the verb 'to scotch,' meaning to score or cut, since the hardened candy was scored into pieces before it fully set. Beyond that, the exact coinage is murky; no one can say for certain who first paired the butter with the scotch.
- name origin
- scotch means to score or cut the candy
- key difference
- uses brown sugar, caramel uses white
- original form
- started as a hard candy, not a sauce
- flavor secret
- molasses in brown sugar gives the deeper taste