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Recipe for Butterscotch Sauce

This irresistible sauce is delicious served with ice-cream. Also great with pancakes and sliced bananas or chopped nuts, eg pecans, hazelnuts or walnuts, or with sticky toffee pudding.

4ozs (110g) butter

6ozs (170g) dark soft brown Barbados sugar

4ozs (110g) granulated sugar

10ozs (285g) golden syrup

8 fl ozs (225ml) cream

¼ tsp vanilla essence

Put the butter, sugars and golden syrup into a heavy-bottomed saucepan and melt gently on a low heat. Simmer for about 5 minutes, remove from the heat and gradually stir in the cream and the vanilla essence. Put back on the heat and stir for 2 or 3 minutes until the sauce is absolutely smooth.

Serve hot or cold.

Note: This sauce will keep for several weeks stored in a screw-top jar in the fridge.