How often do we use butter in our desserts? I know you all may say we use butter in the cake, and cookie batters but no I am talking about having butter as a base flavouring agent in a dessert.

When we were in our childhood we were so confused between chocolate ice cream to buy or vanilla. I was always on the chocolate side because why not? It’s chocolate no questions asked but there are times when I need a break from the chocolate flavour so I go for some fruity flavours like mango, raspberry, strawberry, and black currant.

This was my palate of flavours but my maa was always asking for a butterscotch ice cream i don’t know why she was always o fixed and obsessed about this flavour, although I won’t say I never took a bite from maa’s ice cream and I did like it.

There is something about the butterscotch flavour which allows a person to at least try it once because the flavour knows about its presence and the mouth feel it leaves when one takes a bite of it, be it butterscotch syrup with crunchies on top of a cake or combination of chocolate and butterscotch in cookies, it has always amazed the one dared to try it and were left astonished by its after taste.

Although the butter part is obvious, “scotch” is in dispute. Many assume that “scotch” means the candy originated in Scotland. That’s certainly an easy answer to the question, but is it right? Some researchers have found what they believe to be the first recorded use of the word in 1817. This is when the confectioner, Samuel Parkinson, is credited with developing the recipe. Parkinson lived in the Yorkshire town of Doncaster, and Doncaster is in England, east of Manchester.

The world has England to thank for adding butterscotch to the food world over 200 years ago. Credit for the invention of butterscotch goes to one Samuel Parkinson, who had originally created and marketed it as a creation called “buttery brittle toffee” in 1817 Doncaster in Yorkshire, England. At one point, the company received the Royal Seal of Approval and was presented to none other than Queen Victoria in 1851 during a visit to Doncaster. Production of Parkinson’s Butterscotch called it quits in 1977 and the very origins of butterscotch were relegated to the dustbin of classic candy history.

I think if there is any flavour of nostalgia, it has to be butterscotch which swims us into our buttery childhood of creamy fun and sweet happiness and joy all around us.