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Bonfire toffee (also known as treacle toffee, Plot toffee, or Tom Trot) is a hard, brittle toffee associated with Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night (also known as "Bonfire Night") in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The toffee tastes very strongly of black treacle ( molasses ), and cheap versions can be quite bitter.
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).
Candy apples (or toffee apples in Commonwealth English) are whole apples covered in a sugar candy coating, with a stick inserted as a handle. These are a common treat at fall festivals in Western culture in the Northern Hemisphere , such as Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night , because these festivals occur in the wake of annual apple harvests. [ 1 ]
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Walkers' Nonsuch toffee hammer. A toffee hammer is a very small hammer designed for breaking up sheets or slabs of hard toffee, such as bonfire toffee, into small pieces suitable for consumption. A toffee hammer is sometimes included as a novelty item in gift packs produced by toffee manufacturers. [1] [2]
Halloween, 1915, Howard Chandler Christy North Texas Agricultural College students bobbing for apples, circa 1930s. A common variant of bobbing of apples is the game snap apple or apple on a string, in which apples are hung from the ceiling and contestants jump to take bites - the winner is the contestant that manages to eat their entire apple first.
Army & Navy sweets. Army & Navy sweets are a type of traditional boiled sweet, or hard candy, available in the United Kingdom.They are black in colour, lozenge-shaped and flavoured with liquorice and herbs.
This probably originated when the toffee apple was a popular type of candy. Apple-giving in much of Canada, however, has been taboo since the 1960s when stories (of almost certainly questionable authenticity) appeared of razors hidden inside Halloween apples; parents began to check over their children's fruit for safety before allowing them to ...