Toffee
It’s the time of year for colds and sore throats. I’ve had my own over Christmas and the New Year, and I know I’m not alone. Then comes the tickly cough. One of the best low-cost remedies (although it’s not a cure) is home-made toffee, which coats your throat in a sticky, sweet goo that is utterly delicious.
It’s very easy to make, and requires only a small number of inexpensive ingredients. This recipe was always made by my grandmother, and she hand wrote it in her recipe book under the title ‘Good Toffee’.
Ingredients
6 tablespoons of sugar
115g (4oz) of butter
3 desert spoons of milk
3 desert spoons of Golden Syrup
a little vinegarMethod
Place all of the ingredients in a heavy pan and boil them over a very gentle heat for 20 minutes. This combination boils at a very low temperature, and you don’t want to burn your sugar, so keep things as cool as possible while still retaining a gentle boil. On some gas hobs you might have to turn things down so far that you don’t even see a flame.Meanwhile, run the tap until really cold and fill a glass with water. After 20 minutes, use a teaspoon to take a small amount of the mixture out of the pan and drop it into the water. If it forms into a small ball then it is ready. If not, keep boiling a little longer and try again.
Once one of your drops of mixture has formed a ball, take what remains off the heat and pour it into a baking tray to cool. Before it is fully cold, score lines into it using a knife, and when it is fully cooled use these to separate the mixture into individual sweets, which should be wrapped in twists of greaseproof paper.
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Thanks so much for sharing this recipe. I’ve just used it to make some toffee this evening and it is really fabulous. Thank you. Karen
wicked thanks! we are doing toffee apples tonight at the club so cheers
Thankyou so much for this recipe, it is a great help, I am making my Dad some for Fathers day, it will be soo much cheaper than thornton’s toffee.
Just poured it – hope I wasn’t too hasty!
Really looking forward to tasting it – thanks Grandma!
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