Toffy

Ingredients

• One and one-half pound sugar
• one pint cold water
• one quarter pound butter
• the juice of one lemon

Method

1. 1

   Place in a brass pan the sugar, pour over it the water, and stir the two over the fire till boiling.

2. 2

   Then allow them to boil quickly for twenty minutes, stirring constantly all the time; add then the butter and lemon-juice; boil all for ten minutes longer, still continuing to stir.

3. 3

   Grease well a flat dish with butter, pour this over, and allow it to get cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 160. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Toffy. — One and one -half pound sugar, one pint cold water, one quarter pound butter, the juice of one lemon

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