Nougat

• Sugar, 6 oz.
• almonds, 12 oz.

This is a preparation of barley sugar, and almonds, filberts, or pistachio-nuts, or which good confectioners, both foreign and English make a great variety of highly ornamental dishes. We must however, confine our directions to the most common and simple mode of serving it. Blanch twelve ounces of fine Jordan almonds in the usual way, wipe them very dry, split them in halves, and spread them up