'Everton Toffy'

"Everton Toffy"

From Memorials of Liverpool....second edition, revised, with additions.

A little above the coffee-house we come upon the former seat of the manufacture for which the locality has been famous for more than a century, the far-famed "Everton Toffy," of which the juveniles of the present day, and many who were juveniles of the past, have such pleasant recollections. Though the shop before us was long one seat of the manufacture, it originated a little higher up the hill, where a certain Molly Bushell dwelt in a cottage about 1759. It is said that the recipe for the delicious compund was not the invention of Molly herself, but was given to her by a medical gentleman of Liverpool out of kindness. Would that his name had been handed down to posterity! Many men have had noble monuments erected to their memory for far less benefits to the human race. Be this as it may, Molly proved a worthy depositary of the secret. Her fame spread far and wide, and Everton toffy has long taken its place along with Banbury cakes and Ormskirk gingerbread as one of the classical confitures for juvenile delectation. The manufacture is still carried on by the descendants of Old Molly, who have so well preserved the secret that no imitations have ever yet been found which equal the original.

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