Burnt Almonds

Ingredients

• 1 pound shelled almonds
• 1 pound sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 level teaspoon cream tartar

Method

1. 1

   Set the almonds in a candy kettle over moderate fire and stir until they parch.

2. 2

   Boil sugar, water, and cream tartar to make a clear syrup, pour over almonds, and keep moving until thickly covered.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 120. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Burnt Almonds. 1 p(»uud shelled almonds. 1 pound sugar. ■^ cup water. 1 level teaspoon cream tarter. Set the almondy in a round-bottom- ed candy kettle over a moderate fire and stir them until they begin to parch. Boil the sugar, water and cream tartar together, making a clear syrup, pour a little over the almonds in the kettle and keep them moving while it dries to su- gar on them, then pour on more and so on till the syrup is all used and the al- monds are thickly covered. A little red coloring can be added to the syrup near the last to make the outside coating of that color. 430— Almond Taffy- Brown. 1^ pounds brown sugar. 8 ounces best fresh butter. 1 teacupful of vinegar and water — about half and half. 8 to 12 ounces almonds. Scald and peel the almondSjSplit them COOKING FOR PROFIT, 115 and spread them evenly on two large dishes slightly buttered. Boil the other ingredients together about 15 or 20 min- utes. Shake them together at first but do not stir. When a drop of the candy sets quite hard and brittle in cold water take it from the fire and pour it evenly all over the almonds, only just deep enough to cover them. This kind cannot be stirred nor pulled, as the butter separates from the sugar which then turns grainy. Mark it off with a knife while cooling, and when cold cut in strips and wrap them in wax paper. ' 431— Almond Candy— White. J pound almonds. 1 pound granulated sugar, 1 small cup water. 1 rounded teaspoon powdered gum arable. 1 level teaspoon cream tartar

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