Tablet for Pam

shorty · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

Ingredients:

2 lb sugar (granulated or castor)
1 oz butter
1 big tin Fussels sweetened condensed milk
small carton single cream
teaspoon vanilla essence

Mix them all together and bring slowly to the boil (it takes a while).

Boil for around twenty minutes, stirring the whole time, until it goes like toffee when you drop it in cold water.

Take it off the heat and beat it with a wooden spoon. At the first sign of sugariness (or when your arm is dropping off) pour it into a buttered tray (actually I use a big square pyrex lasagne dish).

Leave it to cool. I always cut the squares into it before its set solid or its a bit tricky.

Stuff face and gain several pounds in weight.

Elaine, is your recipe the same? xx

laws1 · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject:

And I bags scraping out the pan before it cools

Pam7 · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

OOOH YUM YUM YUM! I can feel a sugar rush coming on just by reading it! pmsl!

I thought Elaine had done a typo when she wrote 'tablet'....only 'tablet' we have 'daourn souf' is tablet = pills ...tablet = as in soap (

n thats only if you're a posho!...otherwise its a bar! LOL!) 'suppose its a bit like the spotted dick and the Irish lot!

Get me Fussells in the morning!

Thanks guest!

tonyW · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject:

Reading through the ingredients it should be sponsored by the Diabetic Society!

Chelseagirl · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

I bought some from the shop by the Maid of the Loch last year, I always had friends bring it back from Scotland for me.

I just couldn't eat it no more, toooooooooo ssssssssswwwwwwwweeeeeeeetttt.

Now Macaroons Mmmmmmmmm

shorty · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

have to say the home made tablet is much better than shop bought!

laws, alex LOVES scraping thew pan while its still hot

Pam, it starts of a creamy colour and ends up a lovely brown colour.....ooh I can feel my diet going to pot, may have to make some this half term!!

Chelseagirl · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:36 am Post subject:

Oh all right then, you have twisted my arm lol

My frinds mum used to make it, and it was delic.

laws1 · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

Guest1 · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject:

Tablet of WHAT exactly? Is it toffee or fudge or what??

Ive never even heard of a tablet that isnt a pill, either.

laws1 · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject:

Tablet... Its like a hard fudge, Well its not , it tastes different

Oh i've bolloxed it up now.

Remind me.. I will bring some to Dublin

Pam7 · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject:

take a looksie in the 'things that you had to put up with as kids' Mick....

we went a bit Off Topic

shorty · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject:

Mick, if I get time (and I might not) I will make some and bring it on Nov 4th. Its sort of harder crumblier fudge but tastes to die for!!!

Elaine · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

My recipe is almost the same as yours guest, but I don't put any vanilla essence in mine, I use a cup of milk instead of cream, and I use more butter (half a normal-sized pack - is that 125g then?).

I melt the butter with the sugar and milk first, mix them all together, then take it off the heat, add the condensed milk, and bring slowly to the boil. Then boil for about 15 minutes, then stir the bum out of the pot!

Its the beating of it that gives it the lovely colour, and stops the sugar still feeling granulated when its set. If its not a toffee colour in the pot, and very thick to beat when you're done - you're not done

!

Elaine
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Skyegal · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject:

Ooohh I love tablet- but never tried making it. Might give it a go.
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chocaholicsanon · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:31 am Post subject:

me too...
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numberplease · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:03 am Post subject:

Well, I`ve tried it now, and although I quite liked it, it was much too sweet for me to eat more than one chunk, I`d have to wait several hours before the next bit. In describing it, I`d say it tasted a bit like very sweet fudge, but with the consistency of the old fashioned cough candy, if anyone remembers that.

crew4 · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:38 am Post subject:

I liked it but my girls found it too sweet - that's not normal for kids to find something too sweet

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numberplease · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject:

Lynne also found it too sweet, unusual for her.