{"id":711,"date":"2015-02-15T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/?p=711"},"modified":"2020-03-01T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T16:41:44","slug":"butterscotch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/butterscotch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterscotch 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I love butterscotch. It used to be the sweet for travel. Before a long road trip with may parents, we&#8217;d buy sweets &nbsp;&#8211; and my job en route would be to hold on to and dish out the sweets. one of the favourites would be butterscotch. I remember it came in a flat packet &#8211; similar to a small pack of playing cards with sticks of butterscotch &#8211; each stick individually wrapped, with a line in the middle to conveniently snap into to standard size lozenges. Was it Callard &amp; Bowser? maybe. I can&#8217;t remember.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1lb demerara sugar<\/div>\n<div>1\/4pt water<\/div>\n<div>2oz butter<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Put the sugar in a tall pan (tall, because it&#8217;s going to bubble up) along with the water. Heat until the sugar dissolves.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;Bring to the boil, then boil until the temp reaches the soft crack stage 132\u00b0C (270\u00b0F), (when a drop of the syrup in cold water makes hard but not brittle threads).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Add butter a little at a time, stirring until dissolved before adding more.<\/p>\n<p>Pour out into a greased 18 cm (7 inch) square tin. Mark into squares when almost set with the back of a knife. When set, break along the marked lines. Keep in an airtight container.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love butterscotch. It used to be the sweet for travel. Before a long road trip with may parents, we&#8217;d buy sweets &nbsp;&#8211; and my &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[196,81],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweets","tag-butterscotch","tag-sugar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}