An eightway Tablet recipe

• 2 lbs. light brown sugar
• 1 tea-cup water (full)
  1. 2 tablespoons chocolate powder
  2. 1 cupful ginger chips, ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  3. 1 cupful stoned dates cut in two
  4. 1 cupful chopped figs
  5. 1 cupful skinned peanuts
  6. Add &190; cupful walnuts when taken off the fire
  7. ½ teacup currants and ½ peanuts
  8. 1 cupful raisins or cocoanut for a change

Bring VERY SLOWLY to the boil, and boil for 8 mins. Take off fire and stir till sugary. Mark in squares as soon as ready.

Demerara sugar makes good swiss tablet.

White granulated makes the best coloured with swiss milk, 4½d. tin to 1 lb. and a cupful milk, with a piece of butter.