Pumpkin toffee?

[menthe_reglisse]

Does anyone have a good recipe for chewy toffee? My ancestral recipe is delicious, can be made as treacle toffee for extra nom, and very easy, but it comes out so rock hard that the sharp corners (where you've wacked it into pieces with a toffee hammer) hurt the inside of your mouth. Also, if any lasts beyond 12 hours it starts softening into gloop

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[merryhouse]

I pulled some toffee once, for some sort of fair or bazaar - it was when my Good Housekeeping book was very new and I was all fired up with teenage enthusiasm. I don't remember it being particularly difficult, though it's quite messy as you oil your hands to protect them from the heat. And I didn't need a party or indeed any help at all (though no doubt I got plenty of constructive comments).

Last year I made a pumpkin cheesecake which tasted delicious but completely fell apart so obviously needed a better setting agent. I can't actually remember what I did now.

I have a recipe for cinnamon star biscuits (GH reckons it's Finnish but I don't know how authentic) which we do every Christmas. Very treacly and delicious.

[merryhouse]

And I've just found this...

http://hapaxnym.livejournal.com/18187.html