My mum made the best toffee and fudge and treacle toffee. She made coconut ice, sometimes pink and white and sometimes green and white. She also made brazil nut toffee which ended up in my brother taking a trip to the emergency section as he had firmly lodged one of the nuts up his nose.

I remember doing the toffee test by putting a small amount of the toffee into a dish of cold water. If it went hard then it was ready.