Toffee

One of the children and I decided toffee would be a fun thing to make, so we rang up my mother to get the recipe and began. Sugar, water, vinegar, green food colouring, stir till sugars dissolved over low heat, bring to boil without stirring, go outside to play and it turns a beautiful brownish colour instead of green and smells and tastes distinctly burnt. Also it turns out that super heated sugar and water snaps and cracks when dropped into a glass of cold water. Uncertain of how to dispose of the unusable and seriously hot mixture I ran cool water into it in small doses until it was cold and then poured it into a horse paddock. Today there will be some happy horses if they find it.

We tried again after dinner (this time leaving out the step where we leave it and do something else) and it worked beautifully. We have clear, green toffee that looks like glass and is rock hard and clean rather then slimy. I also cut up an apple into slices and we made little toffee apples which were delicious if eaten at once. The juice from the apple dissolved the toffee over night and it ended up at apple floating in syrup. But last night it was really good.