Glace au Nougat

In the chapter entitled ‘Treasures’ in the Alice B. Toklas Cook Book there is a recipe for nougat ice-cream which uses honey instead of sugar, and very good it is too. This recipe grew from that idea. However my favourite nougat contains candied fruit and angelica as well as nuts and I wanted to make the ice-cream nougat-white. Incidentally, when buying nougat look at the back of the shelf for the freshest; for the best flavour, nougat should give slightly under thumb pressure – unle