Butterscotch Cream Pie

One night in the early days of Petee’s, I was chatting with a regular customer who had gone to culinary school. She coyly asked me whether I used real scotch whisky in our Butterscotch Cream Pie, and I told her that I didn’t use any liquor at all. She nodded in approval—it was a trick question, and I had passed her test. Butterscotch is a caramel made with butter and brown sugar or a touch of molasses instead of plain white sugar, which gives it a more complex flavor. Whether the etymology