Nougat

Ingredients

• one pound of sweet almonds
• six or eight bitter ones
• three or four spoonfuls of fine sugar
• a little oil or butter

Method

1. 1

   Blanch and peel the almonds, cut them into dice, and dry them in an oven.

2. 2

   Melt the sugar over a slow fire, add the almonds, and stir.

3. 3

   Grease a mould, layer the almonds, press with an oiled lemon, and put in the oven to soften.

4. 4

   Nougat can be shaped as desired or rolled out and cut into strips.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 153. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

NOUGAT. — Blanch and peel one pound of sweet almonds and six or eight bitter ones, cut them into dice, and dry them in an oven, but keep them white. Take three or four spoonfuls of fine sugar, put it ovet a slow fire, and when melted, put in the almonds, and stir with a wooden i,38 skewer. Rub the inside of a mould with a little oil or butter

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