Scottish tablet recipe
Scottish tablet recipe from Chubby |
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Ingredients1kg white granulated sugar1 tin (appx. 400g) sweetened condensed milk 100g unsalted butter Fresh milk to damp sugar (half a cup) |
Handy HintUse a really big pot as the mixture will double in volume when it's simmering. It's really really hot so don't be tempted to lick the spoon! You'll need to vigorously stir for about 5 minutes so keep going even though it'll feel like it's never going to thicken. Butter a tin/ tray well before pouring in the mixture. Leave it overnight before eating. It'll taste nice before then but MUCH nicer the next day. |
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Method1. Damp the sugar with cold milk in the pan. Add the butter and the condensed milk, and turn the heat on medium-high.2. Keep stirring evenly until the mixture comes to the boil; this usually takes about ten minutes to fifteen minutes. If you start getting brownish streaks (caramel), turn the heat down a little, and keep up the stirring effort. If you get black streaks, you've burnt it. 3. Once the mixture boils, turn the heat down low. Stir occasionally to stop the mix sticking. 4. You'll notice the mixture darken slightly; keep stirring now and then. It'll take about 20 minutes for the mix to cook. 5. Transfer a little of the hot mix to a teaspoon, and plunge it into cold water. It should form a soft, sticky ball that should drip off the spoon very slowly. When it does this, it's ready. 6. Now comes the difficult bit. Take the pan off the heat, and start stirring vigorously. Try to mix in some of the crystallized mixture that has formed on the side of the pan; what we're trying to do is to get the mixture to form large enough crystals that it will set, but small enough crystals that it will still pour. Once you feel the spoon stirring slightly grittily on the base of the pan, and the mixture being slightly stiffer, it's ready to pour. 7. Quickly pour the mixture into the buttered baking tray, which should be on a heat-resistant surface. Scrape out as much of the mixture as you can, as it will set in the pan to concrete hardness, and someone will just have to eat what's left in there | |||||||||||||||||||
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