[Sca-cooks] Hazelnut Nougat

[Vincent Cuenca]

Here ya go, Olwen!


CAPITOL .XXXIJ. PER FER TORONS DE AVALANES
Per fer torrons de avalanes torrades ab mell e fer ne tauletes, tu pendras 
les avallanes e torrar les as, e com sien torrades tu les faras ben netes ab 
un tros de vidre e que sien ben netes. E pux pendras la mell tanta com ne 
auras manester, so es una llr. de mell per liura de vallanes, e metras la al 
foch ab patit foch e menar l as be, e puxs levar l as del foch. E metras per 
liure de mell un blanch d ou e lensar los hi has com la mell sia tebea, e 
lavons menau ho una gran estona fort. E apres tornar ho has tentost al foch 
e cogua tant fins que sia cuyta, menant tostemps ab poch foch. E la 
conexensa de la mel con es cuyta es atras en lo capitol de la pinyonada.  E 
cuyta la mell, levar l as del foch, e pendras les avallanes e metras les 
dins e mesclar les as ben ab la dita mell. E fet aso lensar ho has sobre una 
taula que sia ben neta ab aygua. E apres estendras ho tot e fer n as 
tauletes de calt en calt tals com volras.


Chapter Thirty-Two To Make Hazelnut Nougat
To make nougat of toasted hazelnuts with honey and cut into pieces, take the 
hazelnuts and toast them, and when they are toasted make them very clean 
with a piece of glass and they should be very clean. And you can take the 
honey, as much as seems necessary, which is a pound of honey for a pound of 
hazelnuts, and put it on the fire over a low flame and stir it well, and 
take it from the fire.  And add for each pound of honey the white of an egg 
and add it when the honey is cool, and at that time stir it vigorously for a 
long while.  And afterwards return it to the fire and cook it until it is 
done, stirring constantly over a low fire.  And recognizing that the honey 
is cooked is as said before in the chapter on pine nut candy.  And once the 
honey is cooked, take it from the fire and take the hazelnuts and put them 
in and mix them well with the aforementioned honey.  And once this is done 
pour it out on a board that should be well cleaned with water.  And then 
spread it all out and cut it into pieces once it is cool as you may wish.


Here ya go, Olwen!  It's a black nougat, more like a brittle than a soft 
nougat, but good.  Enjoy.

Vicente
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