PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

Hello Forumites! However well-intentioned, for the safety of other users we ask that you refrain from seeking or offering medical advice. This includes recommendations for medicines, procedures or over-the-counter remedies. Posts or threads found to be in breach of this rule will be removed.
We're aware that some users are experiencing technical issues which the team are working to resolve. See the Community Noticeboard for more info. Thank you for your patience.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

Treacle / Bonfire Toffee

Options
123468

Comments

  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    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
    Herbaholic Posts: 304 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Photogenic Combo Breaker
    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 :D

    Herby x
    NSD Challenge 2010:Jul 12/12 ;); Jun 21/14 :T; May : 6/6 :D
    GC 2010: Jul £134.03/£150.00 :cool:; Jun £278.86/£275.00 :mad:; May £276.13/£280.00 :T
  • julietiff
    julietiff Posts: 747 Forumite
    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
    Penelope_Penguin Posts: 17,242 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    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 :D 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.
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • Penelope_Penguin
    Penelope_Penguin Posts: 17,242 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    meritaten wrote: »
    bonfire toffee is called honeycomb

    Not where I'm from ;)

    This is bonfire toffee

    bonfiretoffee.jpg

    This is honeycomb toffee

    honeycomb-toffee.jpg
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • julietiff
    julietiff Posts: 747 Forumite
    Not where I'm from ;)

    This is bonfire toffee

    bonfiretoffee.jpg

    This is honeycomb toffee

    honeycomb-toffee.jpg

    The first pic is how my recipe turns out :)
  • thanks everyone! ive made the biggest batch you've ever seen! :j
  • Penelope_Penguin
    Penelope_Penguin Posts: 17,242 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    mommyme wrote: »
    thanks everyone! ive made the biggest batch you've ever seen! :j

    Well done :T is it treacle toffee or honeycomb?
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    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
  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi mommyme,

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

    Pink
This discussion has been closed.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 350.9K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253.1K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 453.5K Spending & Discounts
  • 243.9K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 598.8K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 176.9K Life & Family
  • 257.2K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.6K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.