Nougat

In all the twenty years I have lived in Britain we have spent every Christmas in Madrid with my family. The children, who are not children any longer, still prepare the Christmas sweet tray at the beginning of the afternoon on Christmas Eve. First, they cut up the seven or eight different kinds of turrón: Alicante (the hard one), Jijona (the soft one), chocolate, egg yolk, dark guirlache, fig paste and so on. Next, they set out the crystallised fruit, the marzipan figurines an