What's the origin of the word butterscotch?

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Why: Found some pudding in the cabinet! Pudding for everyone!

But is it Scottish? Made with scotch?

Answer: Uncertain! Many food historians connect it to Scotland, but none has any proof. Several unsubstantiated claims:

• The word was first recorded in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, where Samuel Parkinson began making it in 1817.
• The first known reference to it comes in F.K. Robinson's Glossary of Yorkshire Words (1855), where it is called "butterscot."
  
• he "scotch" part may actually be derived from "scorch" rather than Scotland.
• "It draws together all the lads and lasses... and the fun and the daffing that go on during the boiling, pulling, clipping, cooling, are worth the money." (Lol5000)
  

Butterscotch is just the candy. Butterscotch sauce is the sauce. You can pour it on your food.

Source: FoodTimeLine.org

The More You Know: A 1929 recipe for Butterscotch Squares:

• 1 2/3 cups light brown sugar
• 2/3 corn syrup
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 1/2 tbsp. butter
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• Oil of lemon
  

Put sugar, corn syrup, and water in a saucepan, and stir until dissolved. Bring to boiling point, and boil to 280 degrees F., or until it cracks in cold water.

Add butter and salt, and boil to 290 degrees F., or until it reaches the hard crack when tried in cold water.

Remove from fire, flavor with oil of lemon, and pour out between bars on slightly moistened slab. Mark the squares, and bread up when cold.