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His wife attempted to make some extra money on the side by selling toffee from the window of their house in Stenhousemuir. The secret recipe for the toffee was bought by McCowan in a pub from a man selling the toffee for a pint. The toffee proved more successful than the lemonade and soon became the primary family income. [1]
Toffee is an English confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 149 to 154 °C (300 to 310 °F).
Canada had its own version of Mackintosh's Toffee. [3] Unlike the British versions, it was a hard candy which, for most of its history, was sold as a single rectangular bar in a tartan box. More recently (circa 2008) the Canadian product is individually wrapped and manufactured in Switzerland by Nestlé , and licensed for sale in Canada by ...
For Tim Hortons's 50th anniversary, "birthday cake" doughnuts and Timbits were sold for a limited time and given out for free on May 17, 2014- the Timbits being available first in the United States. [6] Other doughnut chains in Canada and the United States sell virtually identical products, often called "doughnut holes".
They called for governments at all levels across Canada to endorse open government, and for them to proactively disclose information in open formats (i.e. open data). On October 18, 2010 Charlie Angus , an NDP MP, introduced a Private Members' Motion M-587 who primary purpose was to support the use of open source in the government, but which ...
Thorntons Limited is a British chocolate manufacturer owned by the Italian confectionery company, Ferrero.It was established in 1911 by William Joseph Thornton and Joseph Thornton, his father, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
In the mid-1990s the decision was made to discontinue production of Riley's Toffee Rolls in favour of increased production of the Altoid mint. [ citation needed ] In 2008 Freya Sykes discovered a recipe book called "Economical Cooking" given to her by her Granny Ella Riley; in the front was the hand written recipe which was given to her by her ...
The Moffat Toffee old family recipe is thought to have been used for the first time commercially by present owner Blair Blacklock's great-grandmother, Janet Cook Johnstone, around the late 19th century. The toffee was made by hand in batches of about 7 lbs (3 kilos) at the time. It was sold mainly in uncut flat rounds of varying sizes.