Being made at the request of Jackson, who like my brother-in-law, Ed, seems to have developed a bit of a soft spot for tiffin......
Tiffin was a real favourite in our household when I was growing up. My mum used to make it for us to take to horsey events at the weekends and for all the hungry helpers on the farm. It is however equally well suited for hungry walkers to take up a hill.
It is also the easiest thing in the world to make. I will give step by step instructions nonetheless.
Incidentally tiffin appears to be an Indian term, (taken up by the British), for a snack or afternoon tea...(It is also a city in N. Ohio, but I am not sure that this is relevant).
1. Assemble the ingredients: digestive biscuits; dried fruit, chocolate, syrup, butter, cocoa powder.
2. You can add almost anything to tiffin. The more exciting the dried fruit the better.
3. Dark chocolate preferable to any of the milk chocolate nonsense.
4. We are using raisins, dried figs, dried apricots and some special CO-OP dried fruit selection which seems to included dried strawberries and goji berries.....
5. Crush your digestive biscuits with a rolling pin. Use the whole packet as digestives are far better as tiffin than as biscuits.
6. Add your fruit.
7. Mix in all your dried ingredients.
8. Melt a largish lump of butter in a pan.
9. Add approx 5 tbsp's of Lyons Golden Syrup. (don't stint, as this holds it all together - crumbly tiffin is rubbish).
10. Add a good amount of cocoa powder.
11. Add your dry ingredients to the melted butter and syrup mixture.
12. Mix well.
13. Put into a flat tray and press down evenly.
14. Find a gap and squish the tray into the fridge, (spot Dana's special chili hot-sauce).
15. Melt the chocolate in an improvised bain-marie.
16. Make sure chocolate is well melted - no lumps.
17. Pour onto cooled biscuit base.
18. Gratuitous chocolate shot.
19. Put back in the fridge to set.
20. So Jackson really couldn't wait until tomorrows hill climb - so like naughty children we had to cut it before it was set.....
21. Tea and tiffin.... mmmmm.....
22. mmmm
23.mmmmm........
braxony: always at the ready with something fizzy in the fridge!
ReplyDeletelove the last pics xx