Treacle toffee, plot toffee, Tom Trot, claggum, clack
Type
Toffee
Place of origin
United Kingdom
Main ingredients
Butter or margarine, molasses, sugar
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. In Scotland, the treat is known as claggum, with less sweet versions known as clack.[3] In Wales, it is known as loshin du[4] (losin du or taffi triog). The flavour is similar to that of butterscotch.[5]
^Keating, "Where to Get the Best Treacle Toffee," The Times, October 20, 2007.
^"Toffee is also the name given to a confection of sugar and butter boiled to hard crack, associated with both Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night." Mason, Food Culture in Great Britain, 2004, p. 187.
^Macleod, Scots Thesaurus, 1999, p. 215; Griffiths, A Dictionary of North East Dialect, 2005, p. 32.
^Freeman, First Catch Your Peacock: Her Classic Guide to Welsh Food, 1996, p. 426
^Jackson, Sugar Confectionery Manufacture, 1999, p. 312.
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