Day 8: English Toffee

No Heath bars here- we went for the locally-made goodness that is Twila's Toffee. Apparently, the addition of chocolate and nuts makes regular old toffee English toffee (who knew?). I really like factory videos and was curious how exactly English toffee is made, so please enjoy this snippet of How It's Made: English Toffee edition (also enjoy the narrator- Alex and I certainly do).


How fun would it be to spread all that toffee out? I only wish they had used a toffee hammer (see weird footnote) to break it up, although the roller-slicer looks pretty cool, too.

Cute.

Alex loved the crumbly texture of the toffee but disliked the slightly bitter aftertaste of the toffee side. He remedied this by eating the toffee chocolate side down, which made it sweeter and more palatable.

Alex's toffee tongue

It looks like Twila's is closed at the moment due to a family emergency but you can purchase their English toffee at any New Seasons Market (dot com!).

Weird footnote about toffee hammers: They were used by suffragettes to break windows as a form of protest in the movement for women's equality. That's really sticking it to the man!