January 8

How I Celebrated

I was pressed for time today so luckily they make heath bars and toffee popcorn that I can just grab and snack on! What do you like better, Heath or Skor? Did you know that they are currently both owned by Hershey? Happy English Toffee Day!

Diet Helpers 

• Sugar Free

  There are not a lot of recipes. A quick search will turn up already made candy you can purchase. Here is one recipe, but it is on the website for a certain sugar substitute I have never heard of before called Swerve. Interesting.

• Gluten Free

  Toffee is basically just butter sugar and water. Gluten free!! 

• Vegetarian

  No meat!

Recipes

• Martha Stewart
• allrecipes
• Betty Crocker
• Joy of baking
• Damn Delicious

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History

 So, I have read a few blogs and articles, but I am still confused about the difference between toffee, English toffee, caramel, buttercrunch, butterscotch, etc.

One said that toffee uses brown sugar, and buttercrunch uses granulated white sugar.

Another said that English toffee can have nuts but if it has chocolate, then it is buttercrunch.

Another interpretation is that toffee is just toffee, and it can be chocolate covered, but if there are almond toppings on the chocolate, then it is buttercrunch.

There was another one that I don't quite agree with that said caramel, toffee, and butterscotch are all basically the same thing but at different hardness. But I have had soft and hard caramels, toffee, and feel like there is a distinctly different taste to butterscotch. OR maybe I just associate the tastes with certain candies that I have already tasted.

Merchandise

Hmmm not much going on here.
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Restaurants

• Looks like I may have to hit up Littlejohn's here in Los Angeles
• Cary's is in Oregon so Nate probably wants to check that out
• Brown's English Toffee is in the name so, it has to be good, right?

Other Things to Celebrate Today

• Oatmeal Month
• California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month
• Hot Tea Month
• National Soup Month
• Bread Baking Month
• Candy Month
• Egg Month
• Meat Month
• Wheat Bread Month
• Fat Free Living Month
• Be Kind to Food Servers Month
• Pizza Week