Author: Amber Furey-Lessen

On October 10 we focused today on making candies using soft sugar syrups and whipping egg whites (not including the pate de fruit). So every team focused on 1 recipe each. Each team has to make a specific Nougat. A nougat involves making a sugar syrup and than whipping it into eggs whites and than nuts or chocolate is thrown in. These are than left to cool and set. 1 team focused on 2 recipes which was the pate de fruit. This simply involved cooking a fruit puree with sugar and pectin to a specific degree temperature and letting cool and set in metal bar molds. All these candles are than cut and finished. Overall for the day every team put out an amazing product and clean up was efficient