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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a pint of water
  2. a gill of waiter
  3. an ounce of the finest butter
  4. four ounces of lump sugar
Contains Milk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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 waiter, and half an ounce of the finest butter into a small tosser, and set it over a gentle lire.
  2. Stir it with a wooden spoon, till of a light brown.
  3. Add half a pint of water ;
  4. boil, skim, and, when cold, bo^-

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon