{"id":1068,"date":"2011-03-25T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:57:39","slug":"how-to-make-nougat-from-mrs-beetons-cookey-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/how-to-make-nougat-from-mrs-beetons-cookey-book","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Nougat From Mrs Beeton&#8217;s Cookey Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(This recipe comes from my great-grandmother&#8217;s 1909 publication of &#8216;Mrs Beeton&#8217;s Every-Day Cookery&#8217; &#8211; <strong><a title=\"Grannies\u2019 \u2018Mrs Beeton\u2019s Cookery Book\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/grannies-mrs-beetons-cookery-book\">see this post<\/a><\/strong> for more information.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NOUGAT<\/strong><br \/>\nINGREDIENTS.-\u00be lb. of best castor sugar, \u00bd lb. of almonds, 1 dessertspoonful of lemon-juice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">METHOD.-Blanche and chop the almonds coarsely, dry them thoroughly in the oven, but do not let them brown. Place the sugar and lemon-juice in a copper sugar boiler or stewpan, stir with a spatula or wooden spoon until it acquires a pale brown colour, and add the prepared almonds. Turn on to an oiled slab, press it out with a hot wet knife, mark into small squares, and when cold break them apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This recipe comes from my great-grandmother&#8217;s 1909 publication of &#8216;Mrs Beeton&#8217;s Every-Day Cookery&#8217; &#8211; see this post for more information.) NOUGAT INGREDIENTS.-\u00be lb. of best castor sugar, \u00bd lb. of almonds, 1 dessertspoonful of lemon-juice. METHOD.-Blanche and chop the almonds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/how-to-make-nougat-from-mrs-beetons-cookey-book\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mrs-beetons-cookery-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}