Muffat taffee

Muffat taffee wi accompanying paper bag

Muffat taffee is a boiled sweetie makkit in tha Scots toon o Muffat.

Tha sweetie is weel kent fur its tangy and sweet centre, whilk gies tha sweet its unique flavour.

Tha Muffat taffee auld faimily recipe is thocht tae hae been uised fur tha first time commercially bi awner Blair Blacklock's great-graund mither, Janet Cook Johnstone, aroond tha late 19th century. Tha taffee wis makkit bi haund in batches o aboot 3 kilogram at the time. It wis mainly selt in uncut flat roonds o mony sizes. It is still makkit in Muffat an ower 300 kilogram are makkit o tha sweet ilka week.