puff candy

[bringitback]

anyone have a recipe for puff candy plz

[Gef]

Haven't done this for ages so you will have to experiment with quantities. Gently melt sugar in a pan (adding a little water helps) and then stir in some bicarbonate of soda. Pour it into aluminium foil containers, cool and enjoy. Not much help but good luck.

[Gef]

Meant to add that in my part of the world we called it Cinder Toffee.

[knowall]

I remember making this as a child.........roughly it was a richer toffee mixture than the previous answer, made with butter, golden syrup and sugar and when it reaches setting point , add bicarb of soda, watch it puff up and then pour quickly onto a tray.Leave to set.

[crisgal]

according to Nigella Lawson:

mix 200g caster sugar with 4 tablespoons golden syrup in a heavy bottomed saucepan, then put over a med to low flame and let simmer for 3 - 4 mins. it's ready when the mixture is a thick bubbly mass, the colour of "rusty caramel" and no darker.

take off the heat and quickly whisk in 1 tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda watch it foam up and pour into a well buttered 20cm square tin.

Leave to set - takes a few hours. she says it can be cut but best to be bashed into splintered pieces. She also suggests dipping the pieces in melted chocolate or stirring into ice cream.

I haven't tried this recipe myself but I haven't found a nigella recipe yet that doesn't deliver! good luck!