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Russian Sweet Treats Recipes:
Blini / Pancakes | 'Chestnut' Biscuits / Pechenye | Choux Pastries filled with Coffee Bechamel | Easter Cake / Kulich | Easter Flower Bread | Honey and Sour Cream Cake | Lepeshki / Sour Cream Biscuits | Lotus Cakes | Natalya's Ladushki | Oladi / Buttermilk Pikelets | Ponchiki / Russian Doughnuts | Poppy Seed Roll | Pryaniki - Russian Gingerbread | Sochniki | Soft Cheese Doughnuts | Sour Cream Cake | Sweet Cheese Pikelets / Tvorozhniki | 'Sweet Sausage' Biscuit | Tvorog Biscuits | Tvorozhniki / Soft Sweet Cheese Pancakes | Uzbekistan Sweet Walnut Brittle | Vatrushki / Sweet Cheese Tartlets


Uzbekistan Sweet Walnut Brittle
Sladkoye pyechenye iz gryetskikh oreknov po Uzbeksky

Ingredients:

1/2 cup light brown sugar.
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon.
1/4 tsp ground allspice.
1/4 tsp ground ginger.
75ml evaporated milk.
175g walnut pieces.
1/2 tsp vanilla essence.

 

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Method:

Place the sugar, cinnamon, allspice, ginger and evaporated milk in a heavy saucepan and stir over a high heat for about 5 minutes or until the sugar dissolves and the mixtures reaches soft ball stage (115C on a sugar thermometer).

Turn off the heat and quickly stir in the nuts and vanilla essence, making sure the nuts are well coated. Turn out onto greaseproof paper. Allow to cool then break into chunks.

Storage
Store in an airtight container.


 


About this Recipe:
Adapted from Susan Ward's recipe in her book 'Russian Regional Recipes'.

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