Shuna has a link on her page to an earlier post on butterscotch pudding, where she discusses this myth (I think... or maybe it's in the comments?). Anyway, apparently that's a misnomer... the word "scotch" means to cut or score. Another site said it was a reference to Scotland. If you added scotch to this, it would probably boil off any alcohol rather quickly. Still, any excuse to cook, eh?
I remember a certain Christmas party (where the Santa was played by my Jewish friend Richard, the good sport of the century, but that's another story) where my boyfriend at the time vanished. After an hour or so, he was found on the back porch, snoring gently against the wall with an oversized Santa cap pulled over his eyes (yes, this evidence was duly photographed before he was awakened). Turns out he'd indulged a bit heavily in my friend Stacey's holiday specialty: bourbon balls.
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Date: 2008-10-31 01:02 am (UTC)Shuna has a link on her page to an earlier post on butterscotch pudding, where she discusses this myth (I think... or maybe it's in the comments?). Anyway, apparently that's a misnomer... the word "scotch" means to cut or score. Another site said it was a reference to Scotland. If you added scotch to this, it would probably boil off any alcohol rather quickly. Still, any excuse to cook, eh?
I remember a certain Christmas party (where the Santa was played by my Jewish friend Richard, the good sport of the century, but that's another story) where my boyfriend at the time vanished. After an hour or so, he was found on the back porch, snoring gently against the wall with an oversized Santa cap pulled over his eyes (yes, this evidence was duly photographed before he was awakened). Turns out he'd indulged a bit heavily in my friend Stacey's holiday specialty: bourbon balls.