English Toffee
Ingredients
- in Combinea large heavy saucepan and stir over quick heat until the sugar is dissolved:
- 1 3/4 C sugar
- 1/8 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 C cream
Instructions
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Stir and boil these ingredients for about 3 min. Add 1/2 C butter.
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Cook and stir the syrup until it is light colored and thick to the hard-crack stage, 285-290°. Remove from heat. Add: 1 tsp vanilla or 1 T rum.
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Pour candy onto a buttered pan. When cool, cut into squares. To cover it with semi-sweet chocolate and nuts, melt: 1/4 lb semi-sweet chocolate.
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Before the chocolate hardens, dust with: 1/4 C finely chopped nuts.
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Break into pieces when cold.
