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Spanish nougat known as turrón follows the traditional recipes with toasted nuts (commonly almonds), sugar, honey, and egg whites. [ 15 ] Torrone from Italy includes these same basic ingredients as well as vanilla or citrus flavouring, and is often sandwiched between two very thin sheets of edible rice paper. [ 16 ]
The inhabitants offered them one quintal of Nougat (equivalent to 95 pounds (43 kg)). The sweet's reputation spread from this point. The success of Montélimar nougat is mainly due to Montélimar's mayor, Émile Loubet, who was later elected President of France (1899–1906). During this period, he undertook a huge campaign promoting the nougat.
Turrón (Spanish:), torró (Valencian:) or torrone (Italian: [torˈroːne]) is a Mediterranean nougat confection, typically made of honey, sugar, and egg white, with toasted almonds or other nuts, and usually shaped either into a rectangular tablet or a round cake.
In the 1985 American romantic drama film Perfect, starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, Curtis's character's mother talks about making the world's best divinity, offering some to Travolta. In the 2006 film Charlotte's Web , the town pastor offers the Arables divinities when they come to him about Charlotte's first "miraculous" web writing.
Turkish delight, or lokum is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar.Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are often flavored with rosewater, mastic gum, bergamot orange, or lemon.
The Milky Way bar is made of nougat, topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate. It was created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars and originally manufactured in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The name and taste derived from a then-popular malted milk drink of the day, not after the astronomical galaxy. [3] [4]
Mantecado is a name for a variety of Spanish shortbreads that includes the polvorón.The names are often synonymous, but not all mantecados are polvorones.The name mantecado comes from manteca (), usually the fat of Iberian pig (cerdo ibérico), with which they are made, while the name polvorón is based on the fact that these cakes crumble easily into a kind of dust in the hand or the mouth.
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