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Published 2014
The English folklorist and historian Dorothy Hartley (2012) reckoned she descried regional variation in how the coated toffee apples were allowed to set before sale and consumption. The Welsh, she said, would hang the toffee apples head-down by their sticks, while the English would up-end the stick in a lump of clay or a halved potato, while some ‘urban districts’ would lay the dipped fruit on an oiled slab so that each apple sits on a little pool of toffee.