'cause Callard & Bowser's is No More: Old English Butterscotch 🌞

Used to love their butterscotch




Old English Butterscotch
Posted on August 20, 2011 by SarahJane

Old English Butterscotch recipe – the best butterscotch I’ve ever tasted made
from a recipe from 1934. Crush it onto the top of ice-cream for a special treat,
dip it in chocolate or eat it as it is!

Ingredients

1lb or 450 gm of raw sugar (also known as demarara sugar, turbinado sugar, natural brown or light brown sugar)
3/4 US cup or 180ml of water
a pinch of cream of tartar OR 1tsp of white vinegar
4 oz or 120 gm of butter
4 tbsp of cream (or 3tbsp if you’re using an Australian 20 ml tablespoon)

Method

Cover a baking tray with foil and spray lightly with cooking oil (not olive oil, it will make it taste funky).

Heat the sugar and water over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved and bring to the boil.

Add a pinch of cream of tartar or a teaspoon of white vinegar and stir in.

Heat until it reaches hard crack stage, which is 150 degrees C or 302 degrees F.

When it reaches hard crack stage add the butter and cream and stir in.

Pour quickly into your tray. I was a bit slow in the video, which is why there is a grainy look on top where it had started to cool down.

Leave until it starts to set and score some lines in it where you want to break it later.

Leave overnight to cool, break into squares and enjoy!


https://www.sarahsvintagekitchen.com/old-english-butterscotch/


This is a great one! Enjoy!!




Callard and Bowser, LLC Inc. was a Scottish manufacturer of confectionery products, being mostly known for its Altoids mints. Other popular products by the company included toffees and butterscotch.[1]

The company was founded by two Scottish brothers-in-law, Richard Callard and John Bowser, in 1779 in Maryhill, Glasgow, during the Scottish Enlightenment period.[1], and then based in several location through the years, and was ultimately a subsidiary of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Since the mints became prominent in the mid-1990s, Callard and Bowser added a number of products under the Altoids name. The company was also the butterscotch leading manufacturer in the world.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callard_%26_Bowser-Suchard