SCOTTISH TABLET

Steps:

• You will also need: The largest pan you own (stock-pot kind of size) a cup of cold water a teaspoon one square baking tray, lined with greaseproof paper Wooden spoon 1.Make sure you have everything in the above list because if you have to stop stirring your tablet, you'll ruin the whole lot and you'll be furious at yourself. Trust me on this. 2.Put the sugar into the pan and pour the milk evenly over the top. Cut your butter into slices and put it in the pan with the condensed milk. Lick the condensed milk spoon (this stuff has 1300 calories per can. Relish it.) Turn the heat on the lowest setting and start stirring. 3.Once the sugar melts and the mixture becomes more liquid, turn the heat up to a medium level. Keep stirring until the mixture comes to the boil, making sure you regularly run the spoon around the bottom of the pan. You'll notice that the mixture changes colour suddenly - keep stirring until you feel the mixture become more viscous. It took me about 45 minutes to get to this stage. 4.Turn the heat off, quickly take your teaspoon and scoop a little of the mixture out and dunk it into the cold water. You are looking for your mixture to ooze off the spoon slowly. If you feel it - carefully! it's still hot! - it should be quite hard. Pour your tablet mixture into your pre-prepared lined tin. 5.Leave for 10-15 minutes then take a sharp knife and quickly mark your tablet into small bite-sized pieces. Leave your tablet to cool completely - or better still, overnight - before turning out of the pan and breaking up. 6.Give to anyone you wish to be your bestestest friend. Hide from the children.