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Many legends exist around nougat's origins. Early recipes of white nougat were found in a Middle Eastern book in Baghdad in the 10th century. That nougat was called ناطف nāṭif. [7] One of these recipes indicates that the nāṭif comes from Harran, a city located between Urfa (now in southeast Turkey) and Aleppo, Syria.
Divinity is a nougat-like confection made with whipped egg white, corn syrup, and sugar. Optional ingredients such as flavors, chopped dried fruit and chopped nuts are frequently added. Replacing the sugar with brown sugar results in a related confection called "sea foam".
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.
The explanation given is that the Milky Way bar's three ingredients in the US (chocolate, nougat, and caramel) were originally meant to represent the three musketeers. However the Milky Way bar was released in the US in 1924, and the 3 Musketeers bar was released in the US in 1932, disproving this urban myth.
The National Song Book (1906) was a collection of British songs edited and arranged by Charles Villiers Stanford and published by Boosey & Co London.The book's publication followed Stanford's work editing three volumes on the collection made by George Petrie of the folk music of Ireland and he was supported in this by Arthur Somervell (his ex-pupil and Inspector of Music at the Board of ...
The Salted Nut Roll is available in a variety of sizes – .5, 1.8, and 3.25 oz. – and has had chocolate-covered limited editions. There have been non-seasonal spin-off products such as the Salted Pecan Roll and a bar which replaced the vanilla nougat with a caramel flavored nougat.
Xavier Cugat (English [pronunciation?]; Catalan: [ʃəβiˈe kuˈɣat]; 1 January 1900 [1] – 27 October 1990) was a Spanish musician and bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba.
The Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 BCE, ink and pigments on papyrus, in the British Museum (London). After extracting the marrow from the stems of papyrus reed, a series of steps (humidification, pressing, drying, gluing, and cutting) produced media of variable quality, the best being used for sacred writing. [10]