Blackball

Based on accounts of the time plus toffee recipe in Mrs E. W. Kirk, 1929, Tried Favourites.¹²⁰

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