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Nut Comfits

A confection made by drying and roasting nuts with sugar and flavoring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Nut Comfits

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Crack a quantity of nuts and dry 8 pounds of kernels in the stove for 4-5 days.

  2. Rub your hand over the nuts to remove loose skins and sift them to eliminate dust.

Make the comfits

  1. Make a good fire under your comfit pan and add the nuts.

  2. Put the cleaned nuts back in the pan, which should be slung to a balance.

  3. Flavor with any essence you choose.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Nut kernels
Form the main body of the comfits and provide their core texture and flavor.
Sugar
Provides sweetness and flavor as the coating for the nuts.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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