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Toffee: Old Fashioned Butter Crunch

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

1 cup real butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups fine chopped toasted almonds
6 ounces chocolate chips


Recipe

Melt butter in a heavy 3 litre saucepan over low heat. Add sugar, corn syrup, and water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture reaches hard crack stage, (300ºF on a candy thermometer.) Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Stir in toasted almonds. Spread mixture into a buttered 13 x 9 inch pan. Let stand 5 minutes. Sprinkle with chocolate pieces. When chocolate is melted, spread evenly over candy. Let cool completely. When chocolate is set, break into pieces.