Galavantitng Around Glasgow and the Surroudning Areas

It is always a pleasure to visit Glasgow, as it is one of my favourite cities. I normally stay with friends when I visit. However the purpose of one of my visits to Glasgow was to attend a dear friend's wedding, so a hotel was needed to be booked. We decided on the Piper's Tryst in Glasgow City Centre. It is part of the National Piping Centre, which was extremely convenient for us as that was where the wedding reception was so all we had to do was stagger a few yards to get back to our hotel room after the reception finished.
The Piper's Tryst is a small cosy hotel. I 'm not sure if you can even describe it as a hotel as it has only eight rooms. It is more conference accommodation above the centre's restaurant. However it is a decent standard being three star accommodation. The eight rooms are made up of a mix of twin bedrooms, single and one double room.
It was easy enough to book the hotel. They have an online booking service and it can also be booked over the phone. However be warned as it is a small hotel there is limited space. Plus they might not take bookings if there is an event on. We were initially told that we could not have the Saturday night due to the wedding taking place. Luckily we got our room, as we were part o the wedding party.
The hotel is reasonably priced. I would say it is around about the same price as a nice B and B or Travel Inn. I think the price might vary depending on availability and demand. I am sure that when we booked the price for a double room was £50 and a single occupancy was £40 .T
The Piper's Tryst has a fabulously convenient location in the Cowcddens area of Glasgow City centre. It is very handy for the Theatre Royal and the Scottish TV Studios being located opposite them. It is also pretty centrally located for all the shopping areas especially Sauchiehall Street and the Buchanan Galleries. The hotel was ideal for us as it was less than a five minute walk from Buchanan Street Coach Station. It is probably takes about quarter of an hour to walk from Queen Street Station and a bit longer than that from Glasgow Central. However Cowcaddens Underground station is a few hundred yards from the hotel. For those driving it is just off the motorway and there is a car park for guests.
As stated beforehand we arrived on foot. I had a very neutral first impression of the hotel from the outside. The hotel is housed in an ordinary looking plain Victorian building adjacent to the church that houses the Piping Centre. It did not overwhelm me nor did it make me think "what have I let myself in for". I was pleased it was not an ultra modern concrete and glass building but it did not have the personality of say a cosy little B and B or a big glamorous hotel.
The hotel is small and therefore there is no separate reception. You just check in at the bar in the restaurant/dining room. We found this disconcerting as we wondered whether we were in the right place or not. We also found that the way to the bedrooms were not as clearly marked as it could have been, as we had to ask which way they were when entering the resident's only area.

You do tend to get what you pay for. This is certainly true of the Piper's Tryst. We had a twin bedroom, as the double bedroom was only available on the Friday night. However this did not mar our stay, as it was easy enough to push the beds together as they were relatively close together. They were soft and comfortable. The room was a decent size and was nice and bright. The cleaners seemed to come in every day. There were the normal features such as hot drinks facilities, hair dryer and trouser press. There was a portable television but it only had the five basic channels. The en suite bathroom had a bath with overhead shower. There were quality toiletries included in the bathroom (the liquid soap smelled very nice) but they came in dispensers attached to the wall. I only had one criticism about the room. It had a very stiff door. It was quite difficult to open. I felt that was perhaps a health and safety issue, as I would not want to be trapped in my room if there was a fire. However on the whole I was satisfied with the standard of our room. We did not need a ton of facilities as we were only using it as a base to sleep and wash.
I would not recommend this hotel to someone with a physical disability. The staircases are quite narrow and winding.

. The breakfast was included in the price of the room. The quality and the choice of food was really good. The Piper's Tryst is known for good quality Scottish sourced food. There was a choice of a continental style breakfast with cereal, toast and fruit or a hot breakfast. I was amazed at the number of combinations of hot breakfast you could have there. It included smoked haddock and eggs, smoked salmon and eggs, traditional porridge, pancakes and bacon, a full Scottish breakfast or a vegetarian breakfast. A full Scottish breakfast differs from an English one as you get black pudding, haggis and potato scones and do not get baked beans. There was a selection of tea, coffee and hot chocolate as well as a jug of orange juice. The breakfast was filling and just what I needed before a wedding. We did not dine in the Piper's Tryst at lunchtime or in the evening but if the quality of the food is the same as the breakfast or the catered food at the wedding I would wholly recommend it as a great place to try proper Scottish food.

I feel the service was perhaps a bit mixed. I believe first impressions count and we did not have great first impressions. However over the course of our stay the staff were pretty helpful with most of our enquiries and even put our wedding gift into the wedding couple's room for us. They also stored our luggage after the midday checkout time, as our coach was not until three o clock.
If a friend's spare room was not available for a long weekend in Glasgow I would not hesitate to book a room in the Piper's Tryst again. The location was great; it was clean and comfortable and had a good breakfast. If you want basic accommodation but do not want to go to an anonymous chain hotel in Glasgow City Centre I would thoroughly recommend the Piper's Tryst.

What do you think of when you think of Glasgow. The wet weather, the incomprehensibly strung accent, the obsession with football or the fact that it can be a rough industrial working class city? Part of this makes me think of the tenements that I studied in my Scottish history degree. Those blocks full of cramped conditions, bad sanitation and breeding grounds for TB that were so fondly beloved of the Glaswegians. Those slum tenements may have long been cleared away to be replaced by the equally bad high rise flats on far flung council estates but the better class of tenement still survive, elegantly lining the streets of Glasgow with their wonderful red sandstone facades. The tenement is such a symbol of Glasgow's past the national Trust for Scotland owns such a house in Garnethill very close to the Sauchiehall Street area of the the city centre.
Number 145 Buccleuch Street is the Tenement House and is a fascinating slice of social history. This building on an ordinary Glaswegian street is to use a cliché like walking back in time. The Tenement House dates back to 1892 and from 1911 to her death in the 1960s was the home of Miss Agnes Toward, a spinster who made her living as a short hand typist. The interior was found to be unchanged from the early part of the twentieth century with just about all its period features intact, by an actress and was then donated to the National Trust for Scotland to maintain and open it up for visitors.
The Tenement House is a property I have always meant to visit on my numerous trips to Glasgow, due to my love and expertise of Scottish Social History but until this visit I have never got round to doing so . I'm glad I visited this time as its great wee gem and a good way to pass an hour when in the glorious city of Glasgow.
Arriving at the door of the tenement block I climbed up into the stair well or the close as it is known. There are stairs so this may not be suitable for disabled people or those with buggies. We were given a wonderful welcome by the receptionist selling the tickets and we managed to get in free due to my friends National Trust for Scotland card. For those that do not have one the charges are not too bad for the calibre of the property but may seem a little bit expensive if just whizzing round. An adult ticket is £5 whilst a family £14 and a one parents family £10. It is not clear on the website if a concession at £4 is a child, student or old age pensioner.
Once we had our tickets we headed upstairs to Miss Towards tenement flat where we had to pull the old fashioned brass door bell. However this was a little unsecured and it embarrassingly came out in my hand! The flat itself was not as small as I imagined. I had read a lot about (often large) families living in a room and kitchen or the famous single ends(single rooms where a family would sleep, eat, cook and bathe). This flat seemed to be in a more genteel area and more luxurious having four rooms consisting of a kitchen, bedroom and more impressively bathroom and parlour.
Working anti clockwise the first room you get to is the original 1892 bathroom. I had read all about outdoor toilets shared by three or four families and trips to slipper baths in the swimming pool so I was surprised to see a lovely deep bath, sink and toilet with a wonderful wooden seat and high cistern. The one thing that had been replaced was the gas meter as electric lighting had been bought in in the 1960s but the National Trust had restored the original gas lighting. I was fascinated by the little details such as the employ bottles of toiletries lining the bathroom window.
Next was the kitchen with its original range, pulley and a cute little over the sink wringer rather than the big free standing mangles I have seen in so many social history museums. What set it apart from me was the box bed set in a recess in the wall. Whilst Miss Toward lived with her widowed dressmaker mother and lodger (latterly by herself) these tenement flats would often be home to much larger families and the box bed in the lovely warm kitchen would have been a cosy bed especially shred with other siblings.
Across the hallway from the kitchen lay the best room the parlour. I loved the way the table was laid out with afternoon tea complete with best china, panscones and other delicious looking morsels. I also loved the fireplace with the wally dugs (those ugly but now kitsch china dogs that everyone used to have) alongside other treasures. Just by the fireplace was the 1892 posh Tenement House version of the Iphone, a servants bell, as it was seen as social climbing to have one even if they did not have a servant (often there was a maid of works, a young girl who would come in rather than live there). The other fascinating thing was a cupboard bed, a box bed with a door to it so it was hidden. These were regulated in the early 1900s, due to the high incidence of TB in Glasgow (this was a fact iIdid not know so i was glad I learned something from my visit). The final room was less interesting being the bedroom.
I felt one of the Tenements House's biggest strengths was the staff. They were friendly and very knowledgeable and very able and willing to answer any questions put to them. It was also interesting that one of the ladies had grown up in a similar tenement flat so was able to give a personal dimension to her information that made it feel less remote and distant.
After a look round the tenement flat it was a trip back downstairs to explore the exhibition area, which provided a good overview on tenement living alongside special exhibitions from Miss Towards personal collection. Whilst we were there there was a display on entertainment including theatre and cinema progrms she had kept from the 1930s.
The Tenement House was busy but not too crammed during our visit on a Saturday afternoon in August. I think we spent around about an hour in the attraction. Just be warned the Tenement House is only open March to October in the afternoons one until five. The other thing to keep in mind is that there are limited facilities at the Tenement House. There is a disabled toilet with baby changing facilities and a small shop selling the usual books and old fashioned sweets but that is all. There is no tea shop and no audio tour. I am not sure about the parking provision as I traveled to the attraction by public transport.
I would recommend the Tenement House if you are in Glasgow City Centre and have a spare hour to fill. I would especially recommend this attraction paired with a visit to the People's Palace on Glasgow Green to give you a good insight into how the ordinary Glaswegians lived in the early part of the twentieth century.

Nowadays Dumbarton is a small town lying 20 miles to the west of the much larger Glasgow. In the past things were very different due to the ancient castle of Dumbarton. Nestled on a crag overlooking the point where the river Leven meets th river Clyde Dumbarton Castle reminds me of a miniature, less complete version of the better known Edinburgh and Stirling Castles. It may not be as well known but was just as important throughout Scottish history .
There has been a settlement on Dumbarton Rock or Alcloithe (the Clyde rock) as it was formally known since the 5th century (and maybe further back to the Iron Age) when Dumbarton was the capital of the former kingdom of Strahclyde and there have been a least three fortifications on the site. Dumbarton was important in the early medieval era as a frontier against the Vikings and later the Norwegians who controlled the whole of the western seaboard part of Scotland until the battle of Largs in 1263. Dumbarton continued to be an important strategic royal burgh and thus the castle a royal stronghold during tie Middle Ages with Scottish royalty such as Mary Queen of Scots visiting and being imprisoned in the castle. Finally the castle became important again in the 18th century as a fortification against the various Jacobite risings and later against any naval attacks from the French. Most of the castle that remains today date from this final incarnation.
I visited the castle on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in March when the weather was nicer in the west of Scotland than London. I would recommend you visit Dumbarton Castle in fine weather as like most castles it is mainly an outdoor attraction and would be miserable in cold and wet weather.
We came by car and the castle was clearly signpost from the road. Its located near the centre of Dumbarton so it would be easy to get to via train or bus. It's certainly a nice afternoon out if you are based in Glasgow. Historic Scotland who maintain the property provide a free car park, which was easy to get into in March but I'm not sure how busy it would be during peak summer periods.
First stop on our visit was to the 18th century Governor's House which houses the ticket office. Prices are fairly reasonable. We paid £4.20 for an adult ticket whilst children are half price at £2.10 and concessions £3.20. Historic Scotland members get in for free. The ticket office doubled up as a small souvenir shop with a selection of books on castles and Scottish history and some very cute cuddly Highland cows!
Whilst in the Governor's house we stopped to read the clear and interesting interpretation panels on the history of the castle and also to have a look at the small exhibition of artifacts discovered on the castle site. Most of the artifacts were military based and had little interest for me. However there were some medieval gravestones dating as far back as the 10th century which were more to my liking. I found it interesting that scissors marked on a grave meant that a female was buried there.
Once outside the Governor's House it was out in the open for most of our visit. Unfortunately due to the nature of the site with its steep sloped paths and a number of steps, 547 of them to be precise, this is not an attraction that is accessible to those with limited mobility and almost impossible for those in a wheelchair to visit. It is great if you want to keep fit. We headed up the steps through the archway of the 16th century guardhouse an then up to the oldest remaining part of the castle the 14th century Portcullis Archway.
We were disappointed to see that the 18th century French Prison was barricaded off. Perhaps they were doing work to open it up for the public. This would be a great assert to the site, as it would give greater valuer for money especially if it was restored sensitively. I was impressed with the way the 18th century gunpowder magazine had been interpreted with a number of barrels and cut out figures. Simple but effective.

Dumbarton Castle is not an all singing all dancing site. There are no films to watch or buttons to press. It is interpreted very simply by interpretation boards scattered through the site giving information on various aspects of the castle's history. There were plenty of towers to climb and cannons to look at from various gun batteries spread across the site . I think little boys might enjoy these as well as the freedom to run about. (although there was one slight drop along the castle wall that was not barricaded and might be a danger for smaller children).
The main draw for me were the stunning views over the Clyde, Dumbarton and to the hills in the distance. You could see Ben Lomond with the snow still on its peak and right in the very very far distance the top of Glasgow University's tower.
Dumbarton Castle is not facilities rich. There are toilets with baby changing facilities, which could be a little bit cleaner. There are also picnic facilities and I can think of no better place to have a picnic whilst looking out at the Clyde to the hills in the distance, however I did not see any cafe.

I liked the simplicity of Dumbarton Castle and found it not to be too crowded when we visited in March. It had a nice peaceful air about it and did not feel too touristy. I think we spent just over an hour fully exploring the site. Its an attraction I can recommend to those interested in history or those with families with plenty of energy but not for disabled or infirm visitors. If you are on holiday in the west of Scotland and it is a nice day visiting Dumbartn Castle is a very nice way to while away an afternoon.

Glasgow, the dear green place is a city I know fairly well and love. One of the main reasons I love the city is the people. They really make the place, as they are down to earth, friendly and genuine. The Glaswegians make Glasgow. So it is appropriate they have a museum dedicated o the People, The People's Palace

The People’s Palace is a social history museum dedicated to Glasgow and its population since 1750 that coincides with Glasgow’s trade in tobacco just before the first blossomings of the industrial revolution, which made Glasgow the city that it is today. I have been to a number of social history museums of varying quality (they tend to all have a mangle, washboard and outside toilet) so I was wondering was how would this compare with others and how would it convey the Glaswegianess of the people? I half expected it to be very similar to the Pumphouse museum in Manchester.

The People’s Palace is located in Glasgow Green. This is a big park near the river Clyde in the east end of Glasgow. It is within walking distance from the City Centre. The park the oldest one in Glasgow dating back to 1450 has had a fine history of public speakers, concerts and was where the city’s washhouse was. It’s a lovely park and worth half a day if you get that rare Glasgow day without rain.

The museum itself is a wonderful red brick building with a huge conservatory, the Winter Gardens attached to its side. As it is a local authority museum it is free to get in. It has pretty standard opening times being open from 10 to 5pm everyday except Friday and Sunday when it opens an hour later. It is also fully accessible to disabled visitors as it has lifts and disabled toilets.

The first thing I saw on entering the museum was the Victorian Winter Gardens full of tropical plants and interesting metal sculptures. This was a lovely place to just sit and watch the world go by. My friend told me that it was available for private functions and weddings. It is supposed to be very popular as it is booked up years in advance for weddings. I also noticed a small exhibition of paintings done by patients of the local NHS Trust. It was nice to see the museum was truly the people’s museum and was living and growing.

Upstairs to the next floor and I was captivated by the exhibition on the Glaswegian language "the patter" in the middle of the floor. The sometimes difficult to understand Glaswegian accent is something that is unique to Glasgow and I thought they displayed this pretty well. The first things you encounter are television screens of Glasgow comics and you can sit in a comfy booth and listen to this. I was also transfixed with an audio soundtrack of children repeating playground rhymes and songs. I may be a Borders girl rather than a Glaswegian one but I remember a lot of them. I must have looked a right numpty (idiot) just singing along with songs such as Ye cannie shove yer Granny aff a bus. I think that is a mark of a good social history museum if you can identify with the exhibits. I also liked some simple lift up flaps with Glaswegian words and their Queen’s English equivalent.

The next section I skipped through. It was on the world wars. There looked like a good Anderson shelter for kids. I skipped through as I could get the Second World War anywhere and know a bit about Glasgow and Clydebank’s experience in the wars. The next exhibits the dairy and the steamie were more interesting. I think I associate the steamie with Glasgow. It did not matter that it was the old mangle and washboard, as it seemed to be presented differently. I saw a grandmother explaining to her grandkids all about them.

The other side of the first floor was specifically Glaswegian. There was a model of Duke Street Prison, which I believe is not far from Glasgow Green. There was also an exhibit on the Barrowlands Ballroom, once a favorite place for dancing and now a great place for seeing gigs. They had little cupboards to open that were exact replicas of those in the Barrowlands. Each one had something that represents an element of the Barrowlands including shoes, hats etc.
Finally on that floor there was an exhibition about the pros and cons of alcohol. I had studied the temperance movement in the West of Scotland and the association of poverty with drinking in my degree course. I found it interesting as it displayed both sides of the argument and had a lot of alcohol paraphernalia including 1990s alcopop bottles. Me and my friend had a good time remembering trying things such as Hooch, Two dogs and diamond Blush .
Upstairs did not quite capture my imagination as much as downstairs. The middle seemed to be slightly political which I skipped. I am not that interested in politics. There was also a lot of space devoted to Glasgow’s industrial heritage. I noticed in this part the interpretation was a bit tatty and faded. Some of the words on some of the panels were very difficult to read. I was disappointed at this as the museum had a refurbishment in 1998 to bring it up to date. Either this display was from before the refurbishment or the panel has not been sturdy enough to be already fading. At the end of the industrial section there was a bit about famous Glaswegians. I marveled at Lulu’s 1970s suit but again a lot of it seemed to be a bit tatty.

The other end of the second floor interested me more. It was on housing another subject I studied in depth in my degree. I found the pictures of a stinking outside toilet in the Gorbals in the 1950s quite poignant and shocking because this was within my parent’s lifetime. They had a display of 19th century housing tickets (these showed how many people a house should hold measured by the house’s size in cubic metres. These houses were often raided in the middle of the night) as they made my lectures come alive. I also really liked a model about a single end (one roomed house) in the old tenements. It was nicely done with a soundtrack of Glaswegian voices and the lighting lit up different parts of the model when they were mentioned. Finally there was a bit on washing and cleanliness with a bath that probably came form a public washhouse and also a hairdryer that looked very like one my mum had when I was wee.

After that we were back down to the ground floor to explore the cafe and shop. I was disappointed to find the cafe although nice was ran by Costa Coffee. That did nor feel Glaswegian at all. The shop was not bad. It sold a range of things from school kids souvenirs to Rennie Mackintosh jewellry. It had a good range of books, some tartan tat and the old fashioned advertisements that are a staple of all museum shops. I wanted to get a magnet for my magnet collection but they only had the old adverts ones which I could get anywhere. Instead I bought some coasters with Scottish words on them as my souvenir of my visit.
The museum seems keen on education. There was a talk on capitalism as part of Black History month but I was not that interested in that. There was also a guided tour around the museum that would have been interesting but it was on after our visit ended.

My visit was on a Sunday lunchtime and it seemed pretty busy with a number of families visiting. . It took about an hour and a half to walk round

I liked the People’s Place. It seemed like a place I could go to again and again if I was in Glasgow more often. I was disappointed with some faded and tatty interpretation and the cafe being run by Costa Coffee but over all I think it did convey the uniqueness of the city and people.

Scotland is known for its top class ingredients such as salmon and Aberdeen Angus bee. However Scotland has its own cuisine that is known to be high in fat and calories but can be very tasty. I present to you my guide to Scottish food you will not read about in the guidebooks.

In the Chip Shop

Most Scottish ones seem to be owned my Italian families. How I yearn for proper Scottish Italian chippies. The first difference is the use of batter. In England they batter fish and onion rings but not much else but in Scotland we seem to batter everything. Scotland is not known for its healthy diet, having the highest rates of heart disease in Europe due to our love of fatty fried foods and the lack of fruit and vegetables. In Scotland I have seen pizza and burgers being battered alongside the infamous deep fried Mars bars. I have tried one once and I was not sure about it at all. I am sure it an acquired taste. I tend to like either a sausage or haggis supper with both of these delicacies in crispy crunchy batter. I know haggis might sound like a bit of a cliché but I do like it especially in the form of a long spicy sausage which is common in chip shops rather than the softer bittier stuff served at Burns Suppers. When asking for your tea (I very rarely say dinner unless it is a formal evening meal) remember that a sausage, fish, haggis or whatever on its own is a single whilst it becomes a supper if chips are added The other main unusual thing about Scottish Italian chip shops is that they sell ice cream alongside the savoury salty fare. Some sell more interesting stuff. The one near my parents sells pasta dishes tiramisu and wine. Yes you heard me correct some Scottish chippies are almost off licences.


Now you have your sausage supper what do you have with it?? Most of you should have heard of Iron Brew. I quite like it. It is especially good as a hangover cure however it is not my favourite Scottish sparkling soft drink. That accolade goes to red cola, a drink that you rarely get in England. Red cola is a (surprisingly enough) red in colour fruit flavoured soft drink. It is made by Barrs and numerous local lemonade firms such as Curries in Dumfries. It is a bit like Tizer but in my opinion much nicer. I describe it very loosely as a fruit flavoured drink as I really am not sure what type of fruit is in it if there is any! It is very sweet with a nice tanginess to it. I have found it makes a wonderful mixer for vodka.

In the pub

Now you have lined your stomach it is time to hi the pub. Luckily you can go later as Scottish licensing times are slightly later than English ones. I can quite happily sit in a normal boozer until 1 am in Scotland whilst in England I would normally have been chucked out at 11pm. Anyway what will I get at the bar? Before you ask, no I will not be having a wee dram of whiskey. I hate the stuff and can not tell my Glenfidichs from my Glenturrets. What about beer then? Well I am partial to the odd pint or two. In Scotland the main brewers are McEwans and Tennants Scottish beer is light or heavy rather than mild or bitter. Ale is rated by the shilling system. The higher the value (they go up to 80 shilling) the stronger the ale. Scottish ales i can recommend include Atlas three Sisters (a dark ale), Isle of Arran Blond and Innis and Gun (stored in whiskey barrels to give it a smooth oak taste) However my drink of choice when I am in a Scottish pub is long Vodka. A long vodka is made by adding a dash of angostura’s bitters to the glass, swilling it around to coat it then chucking it out then adding a shot of vodka, lemonade and lime. I love the taste of it as t is very refreshing and not sweet at all. It is certainly a grown up drink. The ideal thing to accompany your long vodka is a packet of Excel Cheese crisps. They are unusual as you very rarely get cheese potato crisps and the taste is nothing like the cheese corn snacks you normally get.
In the café

After a hard night’ drinking a meal from a good old greasy spoon cafe sounds just the ticket. However a Scottish cooked breakfast varies slightly from the English one. There is the inclusion of slices of haggis and in the east of Scotland white pudding (sausage made mostly of oatmeal). The two other ingredients I particularly love in a good Scottish breakfast are tattie scones and Lorne sausage. You can get tattie scones in England but they are called potato cakes, are a different shape and are served slightly differently. They are rectangular in shape and are best grilled or lightly fired (yes we do fry everything) and taste great in a roll. I know that sounds strange to some people but tattie scone rolls are brilliant especially if cheese and Lorne sausage are added (tattie scone rolls are also the staple lunchtime diet of many school kids!!) Lorne sausage affectionately known as Scottish square sausage is gorgeous. It has more in common with the sausage you get in McDonalds than the traditional cylindrical sausages. They have a slightly different texture too. I have heard them being described as a hamburger gone wrong!

In the Sweetie shop

You were not looking for anything healthy were you?? I like an old fashioned sweetie shop full of glass jars so you can get a quarter of this and a quarter of that. Scotland like any other places has their on regional and national sweets. Most people have heard of Edinburgh Rock but who has heard of others such as Berwick Cockles or Moffat Toffee. The latter is particularly local to me as Moffat is a small town not far from Dumfries. Moffat toffee is not chewy like most toffees. It comes in irregular rounded slabs of golden brown shiny rock hard nuggets resembling a boiled sweet. The taste is delicious. When I think of the taste I think of it being very intense. It is sweet and caramel with an almost burnt taste. The other Scottish sweetie I really miss is tablet. It is often made at home around Halloween time. The ideal texture to tablet should be harder than fudge but it should certainly not be toffee like. It is intensely sweet and very bad for your teeth. It can be made using condensed milk and sugar boiled at very high temperatures.

Is your mouth watering now?? Mine is.