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Coloring For Scots Or Gravies

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Canada

Known as a Canadian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. an ounce of the finest butter
  2. four ounces of lump sugar
  3. a gill of water
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Put four ounces of lump sugar, a gill of water, and half an ounce of the finest butter into a small tosser, and set it over a gentle fire.
  2. Stir it with a wooden spoon, till of a bright brown.
  3. Then add half a pint of water ;
  4. boil, skim, and when cold, bottle and cork it close.
  5. Add to soup or gravy as much of this as will give a proper color.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon