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Tablet (also taiblet[1] [2] in Scots) is a medium-hard, sugary confection from Scotland. It is made from sugar, condensed milk, and butter, boiled to a soft-ball stage and allowed to crystallize. It is often flavoured with vanilla, and sometimes has nut pieces[2] in it.
Tablet has a long history. According to The Scots Kitchen[3] by F. Marian McNeill, tablet is first noted in The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie in the early 18th century. The traditional recipe uses just sugar and cream. More modern recipes substitute condensed milk and butter for the cream, as it has a tendency to burn when boiled.
Commercially available tablet often uses fondant instead of the milk products. This produces a slightly less granular texture to the traditional home-made tablet, and is supposedly much easier to prepare on a commercial scale.
Tablet differs from fudge in that it has a brittle, grainy texture, where fudge is much softer. Tablet is almost identical to Québécois sucre à la crème, except the latter is often made with maple syrup[citation needed]. It's also reportedly similar to South American tableta de leche. Another close relative can be found in the Netherlands that goes by the name of borstplaat and is eaten during the time that Sinterklaas is celebrated.
Tablet is occasionally referred to as Butter tablet, Scots tablet or as Swiss Milk tablet, since some people call condensed milk "Swiss Milk".
The last episode of The High Life featured the hunt for a secret recipe for tablet as the plot device.
See also
References
- ^ Rennie, Susan (ed.). "Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL)". http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/index.html. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ a b Bell, John Joy (1903). Wee Macgreegor. pp. 8–9. http://books.google.de/books?id=U8SuhZDTVPUC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=taiblet&source=bl&ots=IzJ-RWPzT1&sig=eL9sPT0qMJXyxAg93e6sOwyNO1E&hl=de&ei=2V8uSpWHIoyK_Qbw9-zgCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11.
- ^ The Scots Kitchen. Paperback: 259 pages Mercat Press; New Ed edition (25 Oct 2004) ISBN 1841830704
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