#hard toffee

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Grandma Kathy's Hard Toffee Recipe

Ingredients:

1 c. salted butter (never margarine)

1 c. granulated sugar

1 T. vanilla

8-12 oz. chocolate chips

1/2 c. finely ground nuts (optional)

1/2 c. coursely ground nuts (optional)

Tools:

1 - cookie sheet w/ lip (aluminum foil liner, not shown is helpful)

1 - wood or metal spoon/spatula/etc. (plastic melts)

1 - scraper tool

1 - 10" skillet (cast iron works best, teflon is bad)

measuring tools

Melt the butter in the skillet with the heat set at Medium.

When the butter is almost completely melted, add the sugar and mix well.

Stir constantly to prevent burning.

If your stove runs cool, turn up the heat gradually, constantly stirring and scraping, until the mixture boils gently.

When the mixture is the color of milky tea add the vanilla. It will sizzle a bit as you stir the vanilla in.

Continue stirring constantly and if you wish, add the finely ground nuts when the mixture looks like this.

When the mixture feel very gooey and is the color of creamy coffee it's ready to pour. From this point on you need to move fairly quickly.

Pour mix onto the cookie sheet.

Quickly spread the mix until it's about 1/4 in. thick. It won't cover the entire sheet.

Moving rapidly, sprinkle the chocolate chips thickly across the top of the hot mix.

Count to 10 slowly, then, with a very light hand, spread the melted chips evenly across the top. Too much pressure will push the chocolate through the toffee mix.

If you want nuts on top, you'll want to sprinkle the coursely ground nuts on while the chocolate is still melted.

Cool for about an hour (or 15 min. in the fridge). Break into smaller pieces and enjoy. (if you lined the sheet with foil, it's a lot easier).

Ta da! An old roommate & I took these pictures years ago, because the instructions are so visual. I stumbled across them and had to share.

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