Treacle / Bonfire Toffee

meritaten

bonfire toffee is called honeycomb, I think. I used to make it for the kids and it involves boiling up sugar water and a little vinegar to a caramel colour (there is a certain temperature - but i didnt have a sugar thermometer) then adding bicarbonate of soda and turning it into baking trays to cool. the bicarb makes it fluff up and you end up with with something like the inside of a crunchie bar. Is that what you mean?
otherwise my mum used to make toffee like that but without the bicarb and you boil it for a while and you end up with the toffee like on toffee apples (but she used to add butter to hers at some stage)?

Herbaholic

There are so many recipes and variations, I haven't made this for a while but where I come from we call the 'crunchy' bonfire toffee Treacle Toffee, it's the sort that sets in one big slab and you have to hit it with a toffee hammer to break it up. I do have a recipe somewhere but not sure where it is, but it's very similar to this one http://britishfood.about.com/od/festivecooking/r/parkin.htm but I add a little golden syrup as well. All nostalgic now remembering Mum making Treacle Toffee lollies using a jam tart tin as a mould with a lolly stick

Herby x

julietiff

Ingredients; Bonfire toffee

4oz marg,
8 oz Demera sugar,
2 tablespoons golden syrup,
2 tablespoons black treacle,
squirt of jif lemon juice,
dash of vinagar (optional)


Place everything apart from lemon juice
and vinagar in a heavy pan and melt until
it comes to a 'rolling boil for about 10
minutes, stirring all the time.

Next add the lemon juice and vinagar.

Test by dropping a small spoonful into
a dish of cold water, should set so you
can taste

Place in a lined baking tray and cool before
placing in fridge to set.

Penelope_Penguin

mommyme wrote: »

Ok - Long story short - My OH wants some bonfire toffee (in June!) anyway, my nan gave me a recipe AGES ago but I cant find it now - and cant get hold of dear old granny. Now its crunchy bonfire toffee i'm after - I remember that it has brown sugar, vinegar and carnation in it but not much else so im hoping one of you lovely lot will know the recipe . . .

It has to have butter in to be crunchy As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll see if there's another thread and merge this to give you more recipes to choose from.

Penelope_Penguin

meritaten wrote: »

bonfire toffee is called honeycomb

Not where I'm from

This is bonfire toffee



This is honeycomb toffee

julietiff

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Not where I'm from

This is bonfire toffee



This is honeycomb toffee

The first pic is how my recipe turns out

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

thanks everyone! ive made the biggest batch you've ever seen! :j

Penelope_Penguin

mommyme wrote: »

thanks everyone! ive made the biggest batch you've ever seen! :j

Well done :T is it treacle toffee or honeycomb?

meritaten

lmao - the first was toffee apple toffee (which my mum turned onto trays and you had to bash it with a hammer). but we called it bonfire toffee as she only made it around bonfire night! oh and she coated apples with it for us on bonfire night! always coxs apples. I am laughing because i used to bash my apple on the wall to break the toffee as my teeth werent up to it even then!!!
the second is honeycomb - which I used to make for the kids and involved the bicarb - which the kids loved watching me add as it fluffed it up...........???? strange what kids find fascinating isnt it?
but I have to admit - I do love the honeycomb toffee as I only liked crunchie bars for the middle - used to give the chocolate to my friends. (I dont like chocolate - except for the really expensive Thorntons Continental) most chocolate tastes of milk to me - yeuuuuchhh

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Hi mommyme,

As you've now made your bonfire toffee, I've added your thread to the existing one to keep the recipes together.

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