There are some shops in the malls that sell toffee coated nuts. They are wonderful! At a festival that I was at recently, Someone was making some in an electric skillet. It was not too bad. I’ve been searching for a recipe, so far only coming up with the normal chocolate covered Toffee Nut recipes.
My grandmother made English toffee every year for Xmas when I was growing up. The recipe was not in her recipe box or books. I think it was an old recipe she learned from a relative. It was the kind where she’d put crushed walnuts on a pan, pour the hot toffee over it (I seem to recall it was mostly just butter and sugar), then pour melted chocolate on and spread it thinly over the toffee. It ended up being not TOO crunchy – almost the consistency of Almond Roca toffee but not quite as hard as that. I am having a very hard time figuring out how to explain it, but it’s almost like it has a snap when you bite it but then it chews into smaller pieces easily – it’s not sticky by any means. I hope someone knows exactly what I’m talking about and will gift me with a recipe that can help me recreate it! I’d love to make the toffee for my family and bring back some happy memories of Grandma’s toffee.
Some batches she’d do something just a bit different and it would come out softer (but still not chewy) – that was my favorite – any idea what she might have done? maybe overcooked or undercooked or too much sugar or too much butter? I’ve experimented with other recipes and could never get the right consistency.
Oh! And it was always best straight from the freezer.
Seriously? One answer? *sigh*
We tried to uncover what many people see as the best sticky toffee pudding recipe in the world from the Sharrow Bay hotel in the Lake District. Watch this video to find out if we succeed in finding out the secret recipe.
This video is made for “Recipes for a Working Girl,” a food blog with quick and easy recipes. The full recipe can be found here: www.recipesforaworkinggirl.com
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