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Scots tablet, or tablet, is a medium-hard, sugary confection from Scotland. It is made from sugar, condensed milk, and butter, boiled to a soft-ball stage and allowed to crystallize. It is often flavoured with vanilla, and sometimes has nut pieces in it.

Tablet (or taiblet in Scots) has a long history. According to The Scots Kitchen by F. Marian McNeill, tablet is first noted in The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie in the early 18th century CE. The traditional recipe uses just sugar and cream. More modern recipes substitute condensed milk and butter for the cream, as it has a tendency to burn when boiled.

Commercially available tablet often use fondant instead of the milk products. This produces a slightly less granular texture to the traditional home-made tablet, and is supposedly much easier to prepare on a commercial scale.

Tablet differs from fudge in that it has a brittle, grainy texture, where fudge is much softer. Tablet is almost identical to Québécois sucre à la crème, except the latter is often made with maple syrup. It's also reportedly similar to South American tableta de leche. Another close relative can be found in the Netherlands that goes by the name of borstplaat and is eaten during the time that Sinterklaas is celebrated.

Scots tablet is also known as Swiss Milk tablet, since some people call condensed milk "Swiss Milk."

One commercial manufacturer, Glickman's of Glasgow, is famous for its menthol flavoured 'cough tablet'. Unlike a normal tablet, this is an extremely acquired taste.

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Hmmmm, very curious. I imagine because you are a virtual entity. If anyone human gets to read this, note: "a normal tablet" is wrong, since tablet is a mass noun (as should be clear from reading the article). Styles vary as to where to put punctuation relative to quotation marks. No-one is "right" and its poor form to correct such a thing, especially when the article has a style already. Francis Davey 17:34, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I saw that you have this talk page under Scottish cuisine. Instead of having this page linked. Just create a new page for a put it in the Scottish cuisine category? Plus it would make for a neater link to the article page. Mr. C.C. 19:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User pages should not be in categories used by Wikipedia articles (or stub categories). So I have removed the category tags from this page. --Vclaw 10:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]