Nougat Pinyin: niú gá táng

[Interpretation] A general term for candy made from roasted nuts and honey.

Nougat refers to candies made from roasted nuts and honey, and is divided into two types: soft and hard. The soft ones are white nougat made from egg whites, while the hard ones are coffee-colored, made from caramel, and have a hard, crunchy texture. Traditionally, nougat is mainly produced in Spain and consists mainly of roasted almonds, followed by honey and egg whites. Nougat is also produced elsewhere, such as in Australia, with more variations in ingredients and texture. Nougat is covered with a layer of edible transparent sugar paper, commonly known as sticky rice paper (Waffer Paper), which prevents the candy from sticking to your hands, but it is neither made of sticky rice nor paper, but is made of sweet potatoes, corn, or wheat flour, among other things .

Introduction

Nougat, also known as meringue, is made of egg white, syrup, nuts and other semi-soft confectionery made by aerated processing, the profile can be seen in more fine holes, loose structure, meticulous organization. Its English name is nougat, so the phonetic translation of "nougat", in fact, has nothing to do with the cow, but also translated as bird knot candy, new knot candy. There is also a highly aerated meringue, sugar body appearance, the organization is more gentle, the English name Marshmallow, translated as Marshmallow sugar or Mai Xi Mai Lu sugar, translated as cotton candy.

The special raw material of nougat is ovalbumin, which is a kind of hydrophilic colloid, and can be mixed into a large amount of air when stirred rapidly, forming a foam adsorption layer containing many bubbles and very stable, when rushed into the boiling to a considerable concentration of sugar, under the condition of continuous stirring, the sugar and other ingredients can be uniformly distributed in the egg white foam, so that the original thin and soft foam organization has become thick, and gradually firm, to increase the stress and improve the sugar body. In order to improve the stress and structural integrity of the sugar body, nuts or nuts and other fillers are often added to make, for example, almond nougat, pine nut nougat, peanut nougat and so on. In order to increase the smoothness of the nougat and easy to mold the cut block, made of meringue blanks, but also add a small amount of fat. Nougat is generally white, can also add coloring agents, such as made of light brown chocolate nougat. In order to increase its aroma, but also often add a variety of spices, such as made of vanilla nougat.