Tablet is a Scottish confection made by boiling sugar, butter, and condensed milk until it becomes firm and crumbly.
The ingredients are heated to a high temperature and then beaten as the mixture cools. This controlled crystallisation gives tablet its distinctive texture: it is harder and more grainy than fudge, but it melts readily in the mouth. Some recipes use ordinary milk instead of condensed milk, and vanilla or whisky may be added for flavour.
Tablet has been recorded in Scottish household cookery since at least the early eighteenth century. It was traditionally made for celebrations, holidays, and visitors, when a durable sweet could be prepared from basic dairy and sugar ingredients.
Tablet is often confused with fudge because both are cooked sugar confections. Fudge is typically softer and creamier, while tablet is deliberately crystallised into a brittle, crumbly slab that is cut into small pieces.