[Sca-cooks] Divinity-like candy from Nostradamus

[David Friedman]

>candy made of sugar syrup cooked to hard-crack, then spun 
>eversogently into egg whites,  some folks add fine-ground walnuts. 
>I've not made divinity in some number of years ........ perhaps I 
>should today ..... hmnJo (Georgia L.) Foster Never knock on Death's 
>door.Ring the doorbell and run ... he hates that. I don't want to 
>set the world on fire, I'm just trying to light a candle.
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The divinity like candy that I have made for a long time--I think 
closer to divinity than what's been described here--is hulwa from 
al-Baghdadi. Cook down a sugar syrup, beat it into lightly beaten egg 
whites. The result is natif, a thick white cream which hardens fairly 
fast. You mix it with chopped nuts, form it into candies. I sometimes 
add chopped dried apricots as well, although that isn't in the 
original.

The original also offers the alternatives of honey instead of sugar 
syrup, or of Dips--date syrup. I've never been able to get the honey 
version cooked down far enough to give the sort of dry, crunchy 
effect I get with sugar--it ends up soft and a little sticky. The 
stickyiness can be dealt with by rolling them in ground walnuts.
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David/Cariadoc
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