SC - Help - How to Candy Almonds

[Stefan li Rous]

Kat asked:
> Anyway, would someone be so kind as to give me a basic recipe for candying
> nuts that stands up to variations?
> 
> (What I really need is to know how long/to what temperature to cook the
> honey or sugar flavored with whatever in order to get hard candied almonds
> instead of sticky gooey messes.)

You might check these files in the FOOD-SWEET-DECORATED section of my
Florilegium files:
candy-msg        (136K)  9/23/99    Period candy. Recipes. Candied fruit peels.
Candying-art       (9K)  6/29/99    Period and modern descriptions of the 
                                       candying process by Alys Katharine.
These two articles might also be useful, but I can't remember if they give
candying directions or not:
Roses-a-Sugar-art (21K)  7/15/98    "Divers Pretty Things Made Of Roses &
Sugar" 
                                       by Mistress Renata Kestryl of Highwynds.
Sugarplums-art    (19K)  7/15/98    "Visions of Sugarplums" by Mistress 
                                       Renata Kestryl of Highwynds.

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