What's the difference between toffee and treacle?

Toffee


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Toffy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
  • (2) Recently awarded best veggie blog by Vegetarian Living, her stuffed naan breads and toffee apple and peanut pudding are definitely on the to-eat list.
  • (3) 3.16pm BST Toffee-related advertisement break: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.12pm BST You'll notice this blog hasn't shut down yet.
  • (4) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
  • (5) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
  • (6) The Glazers must've expected that they were getting a wee, ginger, fledgling Ferguson; David Moyes surely imagined that the great day had come after years of stability and prudence at Goodison Park, frugally guarding the Toffees, he was finally to be given the reigns of the all-conquering devils.
  • (7) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
  • (8) • Meals from £6, Stockholmfoodtrucks.nu , or download the Streetkäk app Pärlans Konfektyr Watch the founders of this sweet shop in the trendy area of Sofo (South of Folkunggatan) on Södermalm making artisanal toffee and fudge.
  • (9) The 21-year-old’s fortunes on the pitch have mirrored that of his team as neither have been able to reproduce the standards of last season, when a fine campaign saw the Toffees finish fifth after being in contention for the Champions League for a long period.
  • (10) Oscar Marsh, aged 10, already has plans for the panda toy he has just been bought from the gift shop at Edinburgh zoo, which is filled with row after row of pandas in tartan skirts, panda toffees, panda-shaped shortbread tins, panda hats and earmuffs.
  • (11) I can’t sing for toffee, but one of my clients is a nervous, self-conscious lady and I discovered one day that she relaxes more if I sing to her while getting her washed and dressed.
  • (12) Tarashaj is understood to have coughed for the Everton doctors and agreed personal terms on a four-and-a-half year deal with Goodison Park suits, but will be loaned back to his current club for the rest of the season just as soon as he’s inked a contract with the Toffees.
  • (13) Having been pelted with toffees and then accused of killing South Korean football, manager Hong Myung-bo has decided now is the time to see himself out of the door marked ‘Do one’.
  • (14) There were so many retakes of the Supercalifragilistic scene that we got sick of the toffee apples we were supposed to be eating.
  • (15) Algeria have taken the opposite tack to South Korea's toffee pelters , the press lauding Les Verts as heroes and shuffling together a petition to persuade Vahid Halilhodzic to stay on as coach, as Rob Bleaney reports : The Algerian coach is set to leave his position after the tournament, having endured a long-running battle with some sections of the media.
  • (16) With its rich, bready, almost toffee-ish body and lemony, zesty top notes, it is a lager that even the most militant ale drinker would admit is a superb beer.
  • (17) Measurements were made of oral stereognosis, tongue-tip manipulation skill, control of tongue protrusion, and the time taken to chew and swallow a standardized piece of toffee and to clear it from the mouth.
  • (18) In Korea, you see, telling someone to "eat toffee" is considered a terrible insult.
  • (19) OK, he's writing a breaking World Cup story about toffee.
  • (20) 4.57pm BST Full-time Everton 0-0 West Brom Another draw for the Toffees.

Treacle


Definition:

  • (n.) A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.
  • (n.) A sovereign remedy; a cure.
  • (n.) Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.
  • (n.) A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For me, Kitson is at his best when ( as the New York Times said of It's Always Right Now) "he seasons the treacle with grit".
  • (2) For the pani pol filling, cook the golden syrup, palm sugar and spices until the treacle is boiling, and the sugar dissolves – approximately five minutes.
  • (3) Serves 8–10 For the sweet pastry 110g butter, softened 135g caster sugar 1 tsp baking powder 225g strong flour, plus extra for dusting A pinch of salt 125ml double cream For the filling 225g golden syrup 50g dark treacle 220ml double cream 75g oatmeal or fresh white breadcrumbs 2 eggs, beaten 1 tbsp lemon juice Extra-thick or clotted cream, to serve 1 For the pastry, cream the butter and sugar together.
  • (4) It wasn't a baked Alaska, a fruit tart, a cream-laden trifle or a steamed treacle sponge.
  • (5) Miss South ( northsouthfood.com ) Serves 4 1kg beef short ribs For the marinade 4cm piece of root ginger, finely grated 1 tbsp maple syrup, honey or treacle 4 tsp Marmite 1 tbsp kecap manis (Malaysian sweet soy sauce) Juice of 1 lime 1 tbsp Chinese five-spice powder 1 Make your marinade by mixing all the ingredients together in a shallow dish: it should be thick enough to stick to the meat, but not gloopy, so add more lime juice if necessary.
  • (6) But some 2,000-year-old treacle brown remains made up of recycled scraps of Egyptian papyrus , torn up to encase the reptile, hide hard evidence of a substantial historical cover-up.
  • (7) Can we talk about Brimstone and Treacle, the vision of a devil ... Ah, Brimstone and Treacle was ... Can I break off for a second?
  • (8) Traditional Sri Lankan pani pol recipes use a palm treacle base, but Kuruvita insists that golden syrup is a great substitute, and that the alarmingly large quantity still applies: "It may seem like a lot, but it's a very dense liquid."
  • (9) Everything in PPE is so laboriously slow, it feels like wading through treacle.
  • (10) Rarely seen in western dress and never in a suit, he is supposed to enjoy a traditional country breakfast of buffalo milk curd and cane sugar treacle.
  • (11) The warm bath of mutualised treacle that swilled around Westminster at the beginning of the week has turned toxic.
  • (12) The days when it goes badly are like wading through treacle, but when it goes well it's like surfing a wave.
  • (13) Honey treacle tart Cook - Ruby Tandoh's honey treacle tart recipe.
  • (14) 2 Briefly beat the treacle or honey into the buttermilk (or yoghurt) and, using a fork, gradually add this mixture into the flour mix until a soft dough is formed.
  • (15) Manchester youngsters who answer with a resounding "no" when asked whether their sporting heros eat chocolate, are astonished when shown a video of City defender Micah Richards' fridge, with a small treacle toffee pudding alongside fruit and vegetables, as a treat for when he has worked hard.
  • (16) Recipe supplied by Helen Graves, helengraves.co.uk Norfolk treacle tart This deeper, lighter version of treacle tart has a subtle hint of lemon.
  • (17) Nevertheless, it was a place I felt I might go to once and one of these days , to have a silver-domed trolley wheeled to the table – the dome pushed back dramatically to reveal the joint, the beef to be expertly sliced by the carver – and then to think about ordering a treacle sponge.
  • (18) Meanwhile, make the filling: mix the golden syrup, treacle, double cream, oatmeal and eggs together, then stir in the lemon juice.
  • (19) Here and there great piles of glistening, treacle-dark sludge have apparently been dredged out.
  • (20) I fear that our interests are about to be sacrificed.” Previous UN climate change forums, where dreary jargon often pours treacle over any sense of urgency, have been enlivened by entreaties from Pacific island leaders.