The Yorkshire Toffee Co.

The Director of The Yorkshire Toffee Company (Mrs Freya Sykes)  is the Great Niece of the brothers who first started Riley's Toffee.  It was her Grandmother, Ella Riley (shown left), who hand wrote the recipe and the instructions to make that same creamy delightful toffee of yester-year. 

Until recently it was thought that the original family toffee recipe had been lost forever. Gone and forgotten in the mists of time.  However, we were wrong.  You see, Ella was a good old fashioned horder, being of the generation who went through the war it came as second nature to her save everything "just incase it would come in handy".  As such, Ella Riley had written down the family recipe for toffee and had placed it in her cookery book along with lots of other hand written recipes and others that had been clipped out of newspapers.   When Ella passed away in the 1980's that recipe book passed to her daughter in law - Freya's Mother.  When Freya's Mother passed away in early 2002 the recipe book then passed to Freya, and astoundingly sat on her book shelf for 6 years before seeing the light of day again! 

It was during the Easter school holiday that Freya took the recipe book down from the shelf and decided to try out some of the family recipes...when upon mentioning that she was making toffee to friends and family, the idea came about to start producing the toffee again, but this time under the name of "Ella's Toffee" in memory of her Grandmother who had written the recipe Freya was using.

It was from these same conversations that the idea was born for the shop as a place to produce the toffee from and to sell all the other old fashioned traitional sweets that people remembered too.

And so the delicious toffee of years gone by is back in production, under the name of Ella's Toffee in homage to Freya's Grandmother and the Sister of the original Riley Brothers.