Why do English chocolate bars taste so good?
Because they're made from chocolate.
What is Turkish Delight?
These gummy, sugar-brushed cubes can be filled with anything from fruit flavoring to hazelnuts, and have been a part of Turkish culture for centuries. Fashionable ladies give lokum to friends in lace handkerchiefs, and Turkish families always serve lokum on holidays and birthdays. Since it remains fresh for six months stored at room temperature, most households keep some on hand. English Turkish Delight usually comes covered in milk chocolate.
So do as the Turks do, and keep a box or bar handy for offering to guests and family.
- Toffee was made by the Primitive Britons using natural honey and herbs.
- The Romans are to thank for the toffee revolution.
- Formerly, British toffee was a much harder confection with a strong flavour. It became what we now call toffee when the USA created a softer, more chewable confection, the Caramel and the English followed suit.
- It is true: salt-water toffee actually exists as well as the more common salt-water taffy.
- Toffee has been carried in the backpacks of many walking adventurers as a main source of energy.
- Toffee was once considered an aphrodisiac.
- The Queen Mother received Walkers toffee every year on her birthday, August 4th.
- Walkers toffee, manufactured in Nonsuch, England, is the biggest seller of all our toffees in this store.
- Toffee is enjoyed worldwide including the Far East, Australia and beyond.
- The most substantial difference between toffee and caramels is as follows: