What is Butterscotch?

Butterscotch is the butter, taste of caramel that tastes dessert sauces and hard candies. It's also color.

Most people know Butterscotch of hard drops of candies available in stores everywhere. One candy produces the taste of the "butter rum", which is similar. Although no alcohol is present, it tends to have a kind of liqueur that is probably caused by heated sugar. Its history comes from England and the "Scottish" part of the title can be derived from the word "scorch" because sugar is heated to a relatively high temperature. Candy is then dropped with tea teaspoons on butter plate and leave to cool to make old -fashioned candies. The home recipe includes dark -brown sugar, light corn syrup, butter, heavy cream, milk and corn starch. The mixture is boiled until it thickens into the syrup. It does not collapse as candies and is used for ice cream, over fruit and for other sweet delicacies.

brownies, biscuits and cakes can taste butter and icing with this taste is also popular. Butterscotch "chips" - as chocolate chips - are available in many places and are used in recipes from biscuits to fondant. It is even a popular pudding taste. Recipes for butterscotch goodies are available in cookbooks, on the back of mix boxes and on the Internet.

Sometimes something is referred to as a Butterscotch being. This usually means tawny types yellow - not quite light brown, but not truly yellow. Horses can be described, for example, as they have this color.

Butterscotch may not be as popolar for desserts as chocolate, but it is always a sweet change of tempo. With the variety of available recipes, every chef can integrate into something delicious.