Need great butterscotch recipe to please 80+ yr old woman

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borntofli
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Need great butterscotch recipe to please 80+ yr old woman

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I have a friend who is 80+ yrs old and wants some butterscotch sippins.... I gave her some of my blueberry and she was overjoyed...She has a garden with more stuff than she can ever eat, and a garage full of canning jars that I really need....

I need to make her happy....

I tried butterscotch candies in shine, but wasn't really impressed........ Does anyone have a butterscotch recipe that is out of this world?????
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Re: Need great butterscotch recipe to please 80+ yr old woma

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I think if you look up Fullys nuking thread I think he posted one. If it's not there PM Fullysilenced and am sure he will help you out..
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Re: Need great butterscotch recipe to please 80+ yr old woma

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ITs there and its good ...

ENJOY

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Re: Need great butterscotch recipe to please 80+ yr old woma

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Adding butterscotch candies or butterscotch syrup to vodka is the best way to make a sweet american-style butterscotch schnapps, but the level of butterscotch flavor will be directy proportional to the amout of sugar. I don't care for most schapps, too sweet for me.

What I do is take a jar of mellow lightly oaked whiskey (like scotch!) and use it to fat-wash a pound of browned butter, then lightly sweeten to taste. I like the flavor that a little oak adds, but you don't want to bury the flavor of the butter. It's fun and tastes great, especially right after you make it fresh. The alcohol soluble flavors of the butter get left behind in the whiskey, and all the fat gets separated out. I've only ever done this with store-bought scotch but the method is the same if you want to use something you made

Melt a pound of butter in a sauce pot
stirring occasionally, heat it on low until the liquid is browned but not burned. Use your nose to tell if it's done
Let it cool down a bit! Seriously, you don't want anything boiling or shattering in the next step
Pour the brown butter into a quart jar and top up with whiskey, close tightly and shake well
Shake it a couple times a day for a couple days
remove the lid and heat or microwave the jar until the butter fat is just melted again
Tightly close the lid, and put it in the freezer Upside Down
After half a day or so, all the butter fat will be separated and solidified at the Bottom of the jar.
This makes it easy to pour the whiskey off the top.
Pour it through a couple of coffee filters to clear up the cloudiness a little
Add as much sugar as you want

The first time I made this it smelled just like a Werther's Original, and warmed all the way down. A little sugar helped to carry off the burn of the scotch I used, which was middle-shelf stuff. I noticed that the toasty buttery candy smell diminished a little after a couple weeks but it still tasted great.
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Re: Need great butterscotch recipe to please 80+ yr old woma

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Run some 190 proof neutral and in a quart jar add 12 ounces of the 190 proof, 10 ounces of butterscotch schnapps. Fill the rest with distilled water. Enjoy.
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