Does anyone remember the toffee which came in a tray with a wee hammer?

Yes I do ??

I think your right. I've just had a look in the drawer as we have a hammer that was MiL's but I can't find it.

Oh yes we used to have one at Christmas - brazil nut - Blue Bird yes.

I remember them well and I have used those toffee trays as baking trays for years and still have them and at least one wee hammer. Different make nowadays but they are still available, much smaller (of course) and much sweeter because they use that revolting glucose syrup to make it instead of proper sugar. Don't buy them now as they are not as good.
Those were the days of wholesome ingredients and the toffee was really special.

Calard & Bowser treacle toffee ???

Was it Highland toffee?

The one I remember is Sharp's toffee. They have some of the hammers for sale on Ebay.

Googling it, Blue Bird and Walker's look like the main brands and the names were on the handle of the hammer. Walker's is the main brand now by a long way though.

Wonderful for teeth..........I can taste it now. Hard , creamy toffee.....yum.

I think Blue Bird toffee might have been popular in England and McCowan's Highland toffee in Scotland.

Do Thorntons not do it as a special item from time to time? I'm sure I've seen it in passing (just passing. Honest!)

Blue Bird is the one I remember in the tray with the hammer. McCowan's was the one we bought either in a bar (3d) or as a " penny caramel" (1d)

My Scottish grandpa's one domestic accomplishment was what we knew as Russian Toffee. It was not quite treacle toffee, but much darker than regular toffee and hard as glass. Yes, he would use a hammer to break it up in the tin. We children loved it. Granny made a mean Tablet, equally yummy

My Grandpa made 'Yellow Man Toffee' which was pulled on a hook on the back of the kitchen door. My DM told a story about how her big sister decided to try her hand at making it one day while their parents were out. They returned earlier than expected and so she threw it down the sink in an effort to hide what she had been doing. It set in the pipes, of course, and it ended with the floor coming up and new pipes being laid and she was in dire, deep disgrace as you can well imagine!

Palm toffee, with banana in the middle. But I think it came in blocks?

I won a huge block of chocolate covered toffee complete with hammer (Walkers) in a raffle a couple of weeks ago. The spirit is willing, but I'm afraid the teeth are weak these days. To save the dentist's bill, I'm gifting it to a younger relative

In Northumberland we had Maynard's toffee. I think you could buy it in a block with a hammer as well as in wrapped pieces.
There's a family legend about my PGP, who loved it. He was walking back to work one afternoon chewing his usual lump of toffee. Someone greeted him "Good Afternoon, Mr. K..." He opened his mouth to reply and
found he couldn't open his dentures.

I used to eat industrial quantities of McCowan's Highland Toffee - it's a wonder I have any teeth left! I remember the toffee with the little hammer, too, and we had a hammer for years. I absolutely love Thornton's toffee - especially the Brazil nut and the treacle - but since it pulled one of DH's fillings out we don't buy it too often these days.

My granny used to make us toffee, both in the tray (to be hammered) and as toffee apples. So yummy and no shop bought stuff was a patch on it.

I love Thornton's treacle toffee now, but avoid it due to the fillings problem!!!

I'd forgotten that my mother used to make it too, so thank you for jogging my memory. In small patty tins, then we'd be handed it half-wrapped in greaseproof paper to eat. It was delicious (but might go some way to explaining my dodgy teeth)!

Daddima do you remember penny dainties? That was McCowan's Highland toffee in the penny trays when I was little.

Thornton's treacle toffee is delicious but my teeth come first these days.

Anyone remember Riley's Chocolate Toffee Rolls? Made in Halifax and really delicious. Could have them with covered in plain or milk chocolate - I think the wrappers were red or blue respectively.

I've got a toffee hammer somewhere-is it worth money? Bet I can't find it now!

Oooh! Banana toffee drools at the thought or treacle toffee even better Teeth would never be up to it nowadays......?