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{{short description|Type of confectionery}}
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{{Infobox food
| name             = Butterscotch
| image            = Butterscotch-Candies.jpg
| image_size       = 250px
| caption          = Butterscotch sweets
| alternate_name   = 
| country          = England
| region           = [[Doncaster]], [[Yorkshire]]
| creator          = 
| course           = 
| type             = [[Confectionery]]
| served           = 
| main_ingredient  = [[Brown sugar]], butter
| variations       = 
| calories         = 
| other            = 
}}

'''Butterscotch''' is a type of [[confectionery|confection]] whose primary ingredients are [[brown sugar]] and [[butter]]. Some recipes include [[corn syrup]], cream, [[vanilla]], and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century [[Yorkshire]], used [[treacle]] (molasses) in place of, or in addition to, sugar.

Butterscotch is similar to [[toffee]], but the sugar is boiled to the [[soft crack]] stage, not [[hard crack]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Cold Water Candy Test|url=http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/sugar-stages.html|work=Exploratorium|access-date=12 January 2014}}</ref> Often credited with their invention, [[Elizabeth Shaw (confectionery company)#History of S. Parkinson & Sons|S. Parkinson & Sons]] of [[Doncaster]] made butterscotch boiled sweets and sold them in tins, which became one of the town's best-known exports.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chrystal|first1=Paul|title=Confectionery in Yorkshire Through Time|date=2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited}}</ref> They became famous in 1851 after [[Queen Victoria]] was presented with a tin when she visited the town.<ref>{{cite news|title=Doncaster's Proud History|url=http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/video-doncaster-s-proud-history-1-3369399|work=Doncaster Free Press|date=7 October 2017|access-date=7 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008030759/http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/video-doncaster-s-proud-history-1-3369399|archive-date=8 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Butterscotch sauce, made of butterscotch and cream, is used as a topping for ice cream (particularly [[sundae]]s).

The term "butterscotch" is also often used more specifically for the flavour of brown sugar and butter together, even if the actual confection butterscotch is not involved, such as in butterscotch [[pudding]] (a type of [[custard]]).