Toffee toffs

The Independent chooses the 50 best food shops in Britain, with links for many of the purveyors, such as The Toffee Shop of Cumbria: A family business founded in 1910, Toffee Shop toffee is still made in the company's original copper pans, from recipes 90 years old. It is prepared in small batches, from sugar, butter and syrup or black treacle, mixed by hand, and broken up using a hammer. Toffee Shop fudge is made with butter, sugar and milk, with no glucose, glycerine, margarine or cheap flavourings. The results are delicious, without ever being cloyingly sweet, and the Toffee Shop is something of a national treasure.