British spelling of the verb meaning to heat sugar until it browns and darkens, creating caramel.
From caramel + -ise (British verbal suffix), following British conventions for creating verbs from nouns, whereas American English prefers -ize.
The British 'caramelise' and American 'caramelize' are like little time capsules showing how the same root word evolved different spellings in different colonies.
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