English Toffee

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (only real butter can be used in this recipe)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup water
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 3 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares or 1⁄2 cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup coarsely broken pecans

Instructions

1 _ In heavy saucepan, combine butter, sugar, water, and salt.

2 _ Cook to hard-crack stage (300°F) stirring constantly and watching carefully.

3 _ Immediately pour into ungreased 13"x9" pan.

4 _ Cool until hard.

5 _ Melt chocolate over hot, but not boiling water.

6 _ Spread over toffee; sprinkle with nuts, pressing them into chocolate.

7 _ Let stand 2-3 hours or chill 30 minutes.

8 _ Break into bite-size pieces.