Recipe: Delicious Traditional Scottish Tablet

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Homemade Traditional Scottish Tablet Scottish Tablet is a bit like fudge but with a harder, and with a slightly grainy texture that melts in your mouth. It's a must-try if you visit Scotland, but now you can make your own at home with Aunt Grace's Scottish tablet recipe too! Tablet is similar to fudge, but with a more crumbly texture. You can have Traditional Scottish Tablet using 4 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Traditional Scottish Tablet

1. You need of White cane granulated sugar.
2. It's of Sweetened condensed milk (approx 1 tin).
3. Prepare of Unsalted butter do NOT use margarine.
4. You need of Fresh milk to dampen the sugar.

Make this Scottish tablet as a sweet treat for family and friends - it makes a lovely gift. Tablet is similar to fudge, but with a more crumbly texture. Finally, a tablet recipe that works every time and tastes uh-maz-ing!! Learn how to make traditional Scottish tablet with my step by step instructions!

Traditional Scottish Tablet instructions

1. Damp sugar with the cold milk in a large pan. Add the butter and condensed milk, turn heat to medium-high.
2. I like to put a little dollop of uncooked mix onto a plate just to compare before amd after colour so that I know its done, I find looking is a better way of judging..
3. Keep stirring evenly until the mixture comes to a boil, this usually takes about 10 minutes. Watch the colour of the mixture, if you start getting caramel colour streaks turn the heat down a little, if you start getting black streaks you have burnt it. Good luck cleaning that up :).
4. Once the mixture boils turn the heat down low, stirring occasionally to prevent the mixture sticking. When simmering the mixture can get up to twice its original size so I hope you have chosen a big enough pan..
5. The mix should start to darken slightly so keep stirring now and then, it should take roughly 20 minutes to cook..
6. Put a little bit of the mixture onto a teaspoon and plunge it into a glass of cold water, it should form a small sticky ball that should drip off the spoon very slowly, when this happens the mixture is ready..
7. I personally like my Tablet a light colour so it is usually done about 18 minutes after being brought to the boil, if you would prefer a stronger flavour simmer for a little longer. Be careful though, dont over cook it..
8. Now for the difficult bit. Take the pan off the heat and start to vigorously stir the mixture, we're trying to get as much of the crystals from the side of the pan as we can. We want big enough crystals that it will set but small enough to still pour. This is of course much more difficult to describe than to do but when you feel the spoon start stirring grainily on the bottom of the pan it should be ready. You should be able to feel the difference..
9. Quickly pour the mix into the buttered tray and wait (preferably overnight) for it to set..
10. Do not be alarmed if you see weird patterns on top it is just the sugar crystallising as it cools..

Tablet is the sweetie of my childhood - one bite and I'm instantly reminded of the "sweetie lady" - a lovely woman who used to go around houses selling her home made tablet and fudge. It was the stuff sweet dreams are … Scottish tablet in theory is quite easy to make but it does take a bit of skill to get just right. I would always recommend a sugar thermometerto get the temperature exact and be prepared to use some elbow grease beating the tablet to its setting point. Even then, the perfect tablet still comes down to a bit of luck. The basic ingredients for making traditional Scottish Tablet are really simple and the list is short.