MaC
Moderator
Tablet, good tablet 
It's pale and creamy and melts in the mouth. None of that burnt crunchy stuff doled out in posh restaurants that you know they made months ago.
This is real tablet, and it never lasts long
Wee bother and his pal were home on leave (forty years ago) and Himself taught them to make tablet. They went back to the billet in Colchester and apparently the RSM was incensed, because they bought sugar and condensed milk and showed the rest of the platoon how ....can you imagine an entire battalion of bored young soldiers on the biggest sugar rush on the planet ??
Anyhow, I think we could do with a recipe thread, so here's tablet
Tablet Recipe
Ingredients
1kg bag of sugar
½ can of sweetened condensed milk
125g of butter
1 cup of milk or water
Method
Butter a tray ready for the tablet.
Have a mug of cold water ready for testing
Put all the ingredients in a high sided pan.
Stir continuously on a medium heat until all the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved.
Turn the heat up a bit.
Boil stirring continuously until when some of the tablet is dropped into cold water and you push it with your finger it forms a soft ball.
The tablet should be light coloured not brown. It is better to take it off the heat too early rather than too late. You can always reheat it if its too soft.
Stir the tablet vigorously until it becomes thick . If you cool the pan in cold water this saves you getting a sore arm.
Pour the tablet into the buttered tray to set.
Enjoy scraping out the pot.
Bribe somebody else to do the washing up.
It's pale and creamy and melts in the mouth. None of that burnt crunchy stuff doled out in posh restaurants that you know they made months ago.
This is real tablet, and it never lasts long
Wee bother and his pal were home on leave (forty years ago) and Himself taught them to make tablet. They went back to the billet in Colchester and apparently the RSM was incensed, because they bought sugar and condensed milk and showed the rest of the platoon how ....can you imagine an entire battalion of bored young soldiers on the biggest sugar rush on the planet ??
Anyhow, I think we could do with a recipe thread, so here's tablet
Tablet Recipe
Ingredients
1kg bag of sugar
½ can of sweetened condensed milk
125g of butter
1 cup of milk or water
Method
Butter a tray ready for the tablet.
Have a mug of cold water ready for testing
Put all the ingredients in a high sided pan.
Stir continuously on a medium heat until all the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved.
Turn the heat up a bit.
Boil stirring continuously until when some of the tablet is dropped into cold water and you push it with your finger it forms a soft ball.
The tablet should be light coloured not brown. It is better to take it off the heat too early rather than too late. You can always reheat it if its too soft.
Stir the tablet vigorously until it becomes thick . If you cool the pan in cold water this saves you getting a sore arm.
Pour the tablet into the buttered tray to set.
Enjoy scraping out the pot.
Bribe somebody else to do the washing up.
