English Toffee

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (only real butter can be used in this recipe)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares or 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup coarsely broken pecans

Recipe

• 1 in heavy saucepan, combine butter, sugar, water, and salt.
• 2 cook to hard-crack stage (300°f) stirring constantly and watching carefully.
• 3 immediately pour into ungreased 13"x9" pan.
• 4 cool until hard.
• 5 melt chocolate over hot, but not boiling water.
• 6 spread over toffee; sprinkle with nuts, pressing them into chocolate.
• 7 let stand 2-3 hours or chill 30 minutes.
• 8 break into bite-size pieces.