This was a super fail on my part. I got excited and forgot to take it off the heat. Sugar pounces on weakness.
Ingredients:
- 500g brown sugar
- 250ml water
- 125g butter
- 2ml vanilla
- 1 cup nuts ( traditionally pine nuts but I used what I had, which was pecans)
Dissolve sugar and water over low heat, add butter. Boil steadily without stirring until the miture starts frothing, test a drop in cold water to see if it hardens. Once it passes that test, REMOVE FROM HEAT. Then add your vanilla and your chopped nuts, stir. Pour into a shallow, well-greased pan and park off squares with a wet knife. Let cool and then break into squares.
Tameletjie is supposed to be like a nut brittle. I made…a disaster. Good luck!
