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@ Graham :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D I thought you were speaking from experience

Yes Paula, I know tablet, I've got Mum's recipe somewhere, probably the same as OFITG's.

I don't think I've eaten tablet since I was 20!

:-)

I remember Lee's Macaroon Bars....... do they still make them? I heard they were made with mashed potato :-S

Looks like people were chatting about that on Scotland.com:

http://www.scotland.com/forums/cuisine/3798-macaroon-bars.html

A recipe for traditional Scottish Macaroon Bars

This recipe will make about 12 bars depending on what size you make them

Ingredients

Cold and thoroughly mashed boiled potatoes (1½ heaped tablespoons of mashed potato per bar)
Icing sugar - amount needed will depends on how stiff your mashed potato is
2 teaspoons of vanilla essence
8 oz Melted chocolate for coating
1 Cup desiccated coconut

Cook potatoes in boiling water for 20 minutes before mashing.
Toast desiccated coconut on tray until golden brown.
Melt chocolate slowly in a pan stirring constantly to prevent sticking.
Mix potatoes with icing sugar enough sugar to make the mixture firm.
Chill, then roll out to ¾ inch thick and cut into bars.

Coat the bars with melted chocolate and cover with the toasted desiccated coconut on all sides.

Allow the bars to cool before eating (bars must be eaten within a couple of days of making them - orherwise they will go off)

ty OFITG :-D

I wonder what they put in the shop ones, so that they didn't go off?

:-S

I believe, I may be wrong, the Lees Macaroon bars that I remember - had a fondant based cream centre

http://www.leesfoods.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Lees-Macaroons-16004-Macarena-A-28071101.mp3

We were up home a couple of weeks ago came home laden with Tablet, Scottish rolls and Snowballs silly really it cost a fortune for the Tablet and I can make it any time I want ....By the way OFITG the beating is the answer for real Tablet so don't skimp on it I can sometimes beat for 5 mins. :-)

Nolls from Harrogate, don't I know it, my mother wasn't stupid, she made me do the beating - the price I had to pay to have the samples from the saucer :-D

OFITG :-D :-D :-D But Hey bet it was worth it. I now have a microwave recipe but still have to beat it.

The surprising thing is my family, all Scottish, go mad for it but all their partners who are English can't stand the stuff say it's too sugary (It is too) but Good..... the sweet tooth of the Scots raises it's ugly head me thinks :-D