Best Butterscotch Pudding

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2013, America's Test Kitchen TV

Our goal was to develop a fail-safe method for producing this dessert’s signature ­bittersweet flavor. While we were at it, we stumbled upon a better way to make pudding.

SERVES 8

TIME 50 minutes, plus 3 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For butterscotch pudding with rich, bittersweet flavor, we made butterscotch sauce by cooking butter, brown and white sugar, corn syrup, lemon juice, and salt together into a dark caramel. We made the process more foolproof by first boiling...

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