I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the kids and
have only attempted twice, and both those times they turned out liquidy.

Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?

3 cups sugar
1 cup water
vinegar
food colouring

Thank-you

Ms Misc

In article >,
"Miscellaneous" > wrote:

> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the kids and
> have only attempted twice, and both those times they turned out liquidy.
>
> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>
> 3 cups sugar
> 1 cup water
> vinegar
> food colouring
>
> Thank-you
>
> Ms Misc
>
>

IMHO Toffee is more in the technique.
How are you making it?
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

Miscellaneous wrote:

> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the kids and
> have only attempted twice, and both those times they turned out liquidy.
>
> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>
> 3 cups sugar
> 1 cup water
> vinegar
> food colouring
>
> Thank-you
>
> Ms Misc

Wait til it get to the right colour (ie dark brown) before adding food
colouring.

You may need to increase the temperature. A sugar thermometer helps.


gtoomey

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:36:45 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet
> wrote:

>In article >,
> "Miscellaneous" > wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the kids and
>> have only attempted twice, and both those times they turned out liquidy.
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>>
>> 3 cups sugar
>> 1 cup water
>> vinegar
>> food colouring
>>
>> Thank-you
>>
>> Ms Misc
>>
>>
>
>IMHO Toffee is more in the technique.
>How are you making it?


Am I mistaken or doesn't toffee have butter in it? Seems to me this
is a recipe for simple syrup except for the vinegar and food coloring,
which I don't believe belong in a recipe for toffee no how.

Ginny

Ginny Sher wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:36:45 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet
> > wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> "Miscellaneous" > wrote:
>>
>>> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the
>>> kids and have only attempted twice, and both those times they
>>> turned out liquidy.
>>>
>>> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>>>
>>> 3 cups sugar
>>> 1 cup water
>>> vinegar
>>> food colouring
>>>
>>> Thank-you
>>>
>>> Ms Misc
>>>
>>>
>>
>> IMHO Toffee is more in the technique.
>> How are you making it?
>
>
> Am I mistaken or doesn't toffee have butter in it? Seems to me this
> is a recipe for simple syrup except for the vinegar and food coloring,
> which I don't believe belong in a recipe for toffee no how.
>
> Ginny

And there are different types of toffee - soft and hard. No telling which
one the OP is trying to accomplish.

Jill

Ginny Sher wrote on 09 Apr 2005 in rec.food.cooking

> On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:36:45 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet
> > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > "Miscellaneous" > wrote:
> >
> >> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for
> >> the kids and have only attempted twice, and both those times
> >> they turned out liquidy.
> >>
> >> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
> >>
> >> 3 cups sugar
> >> 1 cup water
> >> vinegar
> >> food colouring
> >>
> >> Thank-you
> >>
> >> Ms Misc
> >>
> >>
> >
> >IMHO Toffee is more in the technique.
> >How are you making it?
>
>
> Am I mistaken or doesn't toffee have butter in it? Seems to me
> this is a recipe for simple syrup except for the vinegar and food
> coloring, which I don't believe belong in a recipe for toffee no
> how.
>
> Ginny
>

As Far As I know you're right about the toffee....maybe she means crack
candy if she gets the temperature and time right.

--
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1AC- 7.2, 7.3, 5.5, 5.6 mmol
Weight from 265 down to 219 lbs. and dropping.
Continuing to be Manitoban

In article >,
Ginny Sher > wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:36:45 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet
> > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > "Miscellaneous" > wrote:
> >
> >> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the kids and
> >> have only attempted twice, and both those times they turned out liquidy.
> >>
> >> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
> >>
> >> 3 cups sugar
> >> 1 cup water
> >> vinegar
> >> food colouring
> >>
> >> Thank-you
> >>
> >> Ms Misc
> >>
> >>
> >
> >IMHO Toffee is more in the technique.
> >How are you making it?
>
>
> Am I mistaken or doesn't toffee have butter in it? Seems to me this
> is a recipe for simple syrup except for the vinegar and food coloring,
> which I don't believe belong in a recipe for toffee no how.
>
> Ginny

That might be her problem... ;-)
My mom also used baking soda to get it to bubble, not vinegar.
--
K.

Sprout the MungBean to reply

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you
see, I have friends in both places." --Mark Twain

Katra wrote:
> In article >,
> Ginny Sher > wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:36:45 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> In article >,
>>> "Miscellaneous" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the
>>>> kids and have only attempted twice, and both those times they
>>>> turned out liquidy.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>>>>
>>>> 3 cups sugar
>>>> 1 cup water
>>>> vinegar
>>>> food colouring
>>>>
>>>> Thank-you
>>>>
>>>> Ms Misc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> IMHO Toffee is more in the technique.
>>> How are you making it?
>>
>>
>> Am I mistaken or doesn't toffee have butter in it? Seems to me this
>> is a recipe for simple syrup except for the vinegar and food
>> coloring,
>> which I don't believe belong in a recipe for toffee no how.
>>
>> Ginny
>
> That might be her problem... ;-)
> My mom also used baking soda to get it to bubble, not vinegar.

I use baking soda when I'm making toffee brittle or peanut brittle and
definitely a couple of Tablespoonfuls of butter. And the mixture has to be
at the hard-crack stage. OP doesn't say if she's trying to make something
"sal****er" taffy-like or a brittle toffee.

Jill

Miscellaneous > wrote:

> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the kids and
> have only attempted twice, and both those times they turned out liquidy.
>
> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>
> 3 cups sugar
> 1 cup water
> vinegar
> food colouring

Are you using a candy thermometer, or...?

serene, whose toffee has to be at 290F to come out right
--
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Ginny Sher wrote:
>
> On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:36:45 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet
> > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > "Miscellaneous" > wrote:
> >
> >> I have been trying to make a very simple recipe of toffee for the kids and
> >> have only attempted twice, and both those times they turned out liquidy.
> >>
> >> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
> >>
> >> 3 cups sugar
> >> 1 cup water
> >> vinegar
> >> food colouring
> >>
> >> Thank-you
> >>
> >> Ms Misc
> >>
> >>
> >
> >IMHO Toffee is more in the technique.
> >How are you making it?
>
> Am I mistaken or doesn't toffee have butter in it? Seems to me this
> is a recipe for simple syrup except for the vinegar and food coloring,
> which I don't believe belong in a recipe for toffee no how.
>
> Ginny

Sounds more like the toffee for toffee apples, aka 'candy apples' in the
US. Butter would be out of place then.

Could be the mix isn't being cooked long enough.