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Almond Comfits
Preparation info
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 1932
Ingredients
- Gum arabic
6 oz. - loaf sugar
3½ lb, - Jordan almonds<
Method
- Scald, skin, wash, wipe, and thoroughly dry the almonds in the oven.
- Clarify the sugar.
- Dissolve the gum arabic in hot water, but not too thin.
- The chafing dish under the comfit pan must contain live embers of charcoal if you are not using a gas stove.
- The syrup, quite hot but not boiling must be kept near, at a sl