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By Annie Gray
Published 2021
Based on accounts of the time plus toffee recipe in Mrs E. W.
This Derbyshire Christmas speciality is tricky to fathom out. Most descriptions run along the lines of ‘the famous blackball – a compound of treacle, sugar, butter and ginger, boiled to a thick syrup which hardened in cooling’.121 There are