Toffee

Ingredients

• 1 lb. castor sugar
• 1 lb. golden syrup
• 2 ozs. butter
• the juice of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients in a thick iron saucepan and boil for 15-20 minutes.

2. 2

   Test for snap by placing a little on a plate, then pour onto a buttered tin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 101. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

} lb. castor sugar, £ lb. Jordan almonds, i tablespoonful lemon juice, £ gill of water. 184 THE HOUSEHOLD Blanch the almonds, cut into three lengthways, and bake in oven a light fawn colour. Melt the sugar in a saucepan, with the lemon juice and water, and cook till it is a clear golden brown. Put the almonds in and stir well. Turn out on to an oiled tin or pastry slab. Turkish Sweet. -Ingredients. — 1 pint of milk, J oz. leaf gelatine, 1 oz. loaf sugar, essence of vanilla, 2 eggs, 2 ozs. of Turkish delight. Dissolve the gelatine and sugar in the milk, add the eggs and the flavouring. Cook as for a custard, and when it has sufficiently thickened add the Turkish delight cut in small dice. Stir it occasionally as it cools and then pour it into a mould or let it cool in a basin, and pile it up in a rocky form on a dish. Toffee. — Ingredients. — | lb. castor sugar, \ lb. golden syrup, 2 ozs. butter, the juice of half a lemon

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