A variant or archaic spelling of 'caramel,' the brown sugar candy or flavoring.
Possibly a variant spelling of 'caramel' from Spanish/Portuguese 'caramelo,' or an obsolete English spelling reflecting how pronunciation shifted over centuries.
The spelling 'caromel' appears in 18th-century recipe books—showing that candy-making was so new to English-speaking countries that they hadn't standardized spelling yet, and different families spelled it different ways!
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