Cream Toffy

Ingredients

• 4 1/2 lb. of sugar
• 1 qt. of rich Cream or milk
• 10 oz. of butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil sugar with cream or milk to the ball degree, add butter and stir until dissolved.

2. 2

   Boil to the crack degree, pour onto a buttered slab, cool, and cut into shapes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 556. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

loz. of butter in it ; toast the slices of bread a pale brown, and as each slice is done, dip it in the boiling water and butter for a second, sprinkle with a little salt, and lay it in a deep, hot dish (the one in which it is to be served). Put lqt. of milk into a saucepan over the fire, thicken with loz. of cornflour (or less, if Cream Fig. 569. Cream Toasts. is mixed with the milk), stir in 2oz. of butter, let it simmer till all the toast is ready, and stir into it the whites of three eggs (which should have been beaten to a stiff froth before the bread was cut). Let this just come to a boil, and pour it over the toast, lifting the slices one by one to let the mixture run in between them (see Pig. 569). Cover the For details respecting Culinary Processes, Utensils, Sauces, die., referred to, see under their special heads. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL COOKERY. 471 Cream — continued. dish closely, and put it in the oven for two or three minutes before serving. (2) Cut up half-a-dozen stale Trench rolls into slices, and into slips lin. by 2jin. long, put them on a dish, pour over 1 breakfast-cupful of Cream and 1 teacupful of milk, and dust over the top some cinnamon sugar. Let the bread soak well in the Cream, then dip in egg, pop them into a frying- pan with boiling oil or butter, and fry for ten minutes, or until they are a light brown colour. Serve on a folded napkin after allowing them to drain. Cream Toffy. — Put 4j-lb. of sugar into a saucepan with lqt. of rich Cream or milk

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