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Everton Toffee

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. a pound of butter
  3. Water
  4. one pound of treacle
  5. Rub
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take one pound of treacle, the same quantity of moist sugar, half a pound of butter ;
  2. put them in a saucepan large enough to allow of fast boiling over a clear fire ;
  3. put in the butter first, and rub it well over the bottom of the saucepan, and add the treacle and sugar, stirring together gently with a knife ;
  4. after it has boiled for about ten minutes ascertain if it is done by having ready a basin of cold water, and drop a little of the mixture into it from the point of a knife ;
  5. if it is sufficiently done, when you take it from the water it will be quite crisp.
  6. Now prepare a large shallow tin pan or dish rubbed all over with butter to prevent its adhering, and into this pour the toffee from the saucepan to get it cold, when it can be easily removed.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon