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Burnt Almonds

From Harper's cook book encyclopædia, 1902

Serves 6

These are known as sugar almonds.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • a cupful of water
  • a cupful of brown sugar
  • a half-cupful of blanched almonds
  • a second cupful of sugar

Method

  1. Stir water and brown sugar in a saucepan until it boils; then add blanched almonds and keep stirring until the sugar browns and begins to granulate.

  2. Take out the almonds when fully coated with sugar.

  3. A second cup of sugar can be boiled and the burnt almonds turned in to receive a second coating of sugar.

Nutrition per serving

330Calories
2 gProtein
72 gCarbs
5 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a cupful of water and a cupful of brown sugar in a saucepan until it boils ; then add a half-cupful of blanched almonds and keep stirring until the sugar browns and begins to granulate. Take out the almonds when they are fully coated with the sugar. A second cupful of sugar can be boiled and the burnt almonds

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