Editing Butterscotch (section)

==History==
[[File:Rye (15045370394).jpg|thumb|right|Butterscotch sweets (top row second from left) sold in a shop in [[Rye, East Sussex]], England]]
Early mentions of butterscotch associate the confection with [[Doncaster]] in Yorkshire. An 1848 issue of the ''[[Liverpool Mercury]]'' gave a recipe for "Doncaster butterscotch" as "one pound of butter, one pound of sugar and a quarter of a pound of treacle, boiled together" ({{convert|1|lb|g|disp=output only|sigfig=1}} each of butter and sugar and {{convert|0.25|lb|g|disp=output only|round=25}} treacle).<ref name=LiverpoolMercury>{{cite news |title=Housewife's Corner |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |date=1 February 1848 |page=4 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000081/18480201/060/0004 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

By 1851, Doncaster butterscotch was sold commercially by rival confectioners [[Elizabeth Shaw (confectionery company)#History of S. Parkinson & Sons|S. Parkinson & Sons]] (the original Parkinson recipe is still made today{{disputed inline|Still made by Parkinsons "today"|date=December 2023}}<ref name="doncaster">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071213165122/http://www.doncasterbutterscotch.com/ "Parkinson's Doncaster Butterscotch"]}}. Doncaster Butterscotch.com.</ref>), Henry Hall, and Booth's via agents elsewhere in Yorkshire.<ref name=Sheffield1851a>''Sheffield & Rotherham Independent''. 20 December 1851.</ref><ref name=Sheffield1851b>''Sheffield & Rotherham Independent''. 27 December 1851.</ref><ref name=Bradford1856>''Bradford Observer''. 21, 1856</ref> Parkinson's started to use and advertise the Doncaster Church as their trademark.<ref name=NZObserver>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TO18891130.2.6&srpos=4&e=-------10--1----0doncaster+butterscotch Observer (New Zealand), Volume IX, Issue 570, 30 November 1889, Page 3].</ref> It was advertised as "Royal Doncaster Butterscotch", or "The Queen's Sweetmeat", and said to be "the best emollient for the chest in the winter season".<ref name=Leeds1853>''Leeds Mercury''. 29 January 1853.</ref> Parkinson's Butterscotch was by appointment to the royal household and was presented to the [[Elizabeth II|Princess Elizabeth]], then the Duchess of Edinburgh, in 1948<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/lifestyle/features/royals_visit_1948_st_leger_1_253568 |title=Royals visit 1948 St Leger – Features |work=The Star |date=29 August 2008 |access-date=5 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007220922/http://www.thestar.co.uk/lifestyle/features/royals_visit_1948_st_leger_1_253568 |archive-date=7 October 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and to [[Anne, Princess Royal]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bestdoncasterairporthotels.co.uk/category/travel |title=travel |publisher=Best Doncaster Airport Hotels |date=5 March 2004 |access-date=5 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411114714/http://bestdoncasterairporthotels.co.uk/category/travel |archive-date=11 April 2011 }}</ref> In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the British sweet became popular in the U.S.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hopkins |first1=Kate| title=Sweet Tooth: The Bittersweet History of Candy |url=https://archive.org/details/sweettoothbitter0000hopk |url-access=registration |date=2012 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/sweettoothbitter0000hopk/page/170 170]}}</ref>