Nougat recipe

Zziggi

Has anyone got a foolproof nougat recipe please?

DS is desperate to make some!!

TIA

meritaten

I havent made this so cannot vouch for it being 'foolproof' but the other recipes in the booklet are! Recipe in 'Favourite sweets and toffees, compiled by Carol Wilson, Salmon Press.

Nougat

8 oz blanched almonds roughly chopped
4 oz honey
4 oz icing sugar
2 egg whites
rice paper

Put honey sugar and eggwhites into a heavy pan, stir once to combine and heat gently until the mix is thick and white and forms 'hard ball' when dropped into cold water. 247F/119C on sugar thermometer. Do NOT stir while heating! Add the almonds and turn out onto surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. shape into a ball and press into a shallow tin lined with rice paper. cover with more rice paper then a sheet of non stick baking paper. put similar tin on top then weight it down. leave in cool place to set then cut into bars. wrap in greaseproof paper and you can store in airtight tin for up to two weeks.

hope this is what you are looking for?

babyshoes

My one and only attempt at making nougat resulted in a delicious but runny mess! Don't even bother trying if you don't have a sugar /jam thermometer, as it is the heat of the sugar that makes it set. I am tempted to try again sometime as we now have 2 thermometers, the digital one being pretty accurate.

Zziggi

Thanks meritaten. Will give it a whirl with DS.

And I have a thermometer and only last week I was looking at digital thermometers - maybe I should invest before nougat?

Thanks again.

meritaten

my ordinary sugar thermometer has never let me down yet! you could always check it by dropping a small amount into cold water to see if it has reached 'hardball' stage?

I hope the recipe works for you anyway! post back and let us know?