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Home Made Butterscotch - Twitchin Kitten - 04-02-2008
This stuff is heaven!
Grab your candy thermometers and it's real easy to make!
Old Fashioned Butterscotch
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup Light corn syrup
1/4 cup butter, (1 whole stick) Use real butter!
2 tablespoons white vinegar
2 tablespoons water
Combine all ingredients in a 2 quart saucepan. Stir and cook over medium heat until sugar is dissolved, then reduce heat and cook at a medium boil, stirring as needed to control the foaming & to avoid sticking as mixture thickens. If sugar crystals form on sides of pan, wipe them off. Don't stir them back in!
Cook to the hard crack stage - 300 degrees. Remove from heat and let it sit for a couple minutes.
You'll see the mixture begin to turn darker like you are used to seeing butterscotch look as it nears the hard crack stage.
Meanwhile, butter 4 sheets of tin foil or wax paper. Butter them liberally!. Quickly drop teaspoonfuls of the butterscotch onto the paper making little patties about 1" across. Space them 1/2" apart.
If candy thickens too much that you can't work with it, set the pan in hot water until it is again workable.
Makes about 6 dozen patties, or 1 1/4 pound butterscotch.