Toffee

Definition

toffee /'tɒfi; US 'tↄ:fi/ ( US also taffy /'tæfi/) n (က) [U] ေတာ္ဖီ။ a lump of toffee ❍ treacle toffee. (ခ) [C] ေတာ္ဖီ တံုးကေလး။ a tin of toffees. ❏ can't do sth for toffee [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) မ…တတ္ ဘူး။ She can't sing for toffee! ❏ toffee-apple ( Brit ) ( US candy apple ) n တုတ္ထိုး ပန္းသီးေတာ္ဖီ။ ❏ toffee-nosed adj ( Brit infml ) ဘဝင္ကိုင္ေသာ။ ေအာက္ေျခ လြတ္ေသာ။

Examples

1. ‘The ramekin dish was topped with slices of banana and strawberry
2. but underneath the fruit someone had been a little heavy-handed with the blowtorch
3. and what should have been crispy toffee was actually burnt sugar.’
4. ‘They are chocolate sweets with chewy toffee in the middle.’
5. ‘By the age of 10 I was boiling up fudge
6. toffee and Turkish delight with
7. it seemed to me
8. only the merest hint of adult supervision.’
9. ‘Apart from sharing Ann's selection
10. I settled for a piece of toffee and coffee cake.’
11. ‘Then
12. at age eighteen
13. I thought I had at long last found the final frontier in a now-crunchy
14. now-melty mouthful of coffee-walnut toffee.’
15. ‘It was a combination of biscuit
16. toffee and chocolate with an icing decoration.’
17. ‘The banoffee pie featured dry
18. stick-to-your-teeth pastry without any flavour of butter and runny toffee which tasted like barely-caramelised condensed milk.’
19. ‘A caramel apple double-dipped in white chocolate and crunchy toffee is the stuff of dreams.’
20. ‘Refrigerate until the toffee is firm
21. about one hour.’
22. ‘As confectionery
23. they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest
24. toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle.’
25. ‘They are served with arequipe
26. milk cooked with sugar until it resembles toffee.’
27. ‘My one true passion at the time was to devour anything with abnormally large amounts of sugar
28. chocolate or toffee.’
29. ‘Generations of Scots have been weaned on the snack
30. which is actually a stack of wafers sandwiched together with toffee and coated in chocolate.’
31. ‘But it's heavenly with chocolate pudding
32. adding flavours of dates
33. raisins and burnt toffee.’
34. ‘If you are going to make your own sugar syrup
35. do any hot sugar work or make toffee
36. just remember that it gets fearsomely hot.’
37. ‘You'll be rewarded with deep flavor and candy that sets up perfectly every time
38. as in the case of our classic buttery almond toffee and our pretty cashew brittle.’
39. ‘To begin with
40. it was all puddings and cakes and sweets
41. and I would make fudge
42. toffee
43. nougat.’
44. ‘She put caramel
45. and rich chocolate frosting into one brownie!’
46. ‘You can't buy chocolates
47. or toffee; flowers cost so much that I have to pick leaves instead.’
48. ‘Traditional bonfire treats including black peas
49. baked potatoes
50. parkin
51. toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer.’