English Toffee

Do you want something sweet and crunchy. My favorite candy is toffee, any kind of toffee and it began with my mother who made this for us during the holidays as a special treat.

1 lb. butter
2 1/2 c. white sugar
1 c. water
4 T. light corn syrup
1/3 lb. chopped fine almonds
1 one pound hershey bar
1/2 lb. nuts rolled fine (almonds)

Cover bottom of a cookie sheet 10x15 with half of the 1/2 lb of nuts rolled fine. Grate half of the Hershey bar over the nuts evenly. IN a heavy kettle cook sugar, water, syrup, butter and chopped nuts together stirring constantly until the candy thermometer reaches the crack state(mixture is very thick and forms large bubbles that burst and omit steam like a geyser).

Pour cooked syrup over the nuts and Hershey bar on cookie sheet and let stand 10 minutes. Then grate the remainder of the Hershey bar on top and sprinkle with remaining nuts. Let stand about 5 hours. Break into pieces.