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Cinnamon Bon Bons

A sweet made by kneading cinnamon into fondant, forming small pieces, and rolling them into marble-sized balls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Cinnamon Bon Bons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Knead ½ teaspoon of ground cinnamon into 4 pounds of fondant.

  2. Pick up small pieces of the mixture and roll them out to the size of marbles.

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

Fondant
Forms the sweet, soft body of the bonbon, holding its shape around the spice.
Ground cinnamon
Adds warm, sweet spice aroma and flavor throughout the fondant.

“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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