Spiced Nuts

Felicity’s Cookbook, p. 40

Shortening or butter to grease cookie sheets

1 cup sugar

4 tablespoons cinnamon

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

2 eggs

1 cup pecans

1 cup almonds

Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease cookie sheets with shortening or butter.

Measure the sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg into a small bowl and mix them.

Check your amount of cinnamon before you go shopping for this. I had a little bitty thing of cinnamon, which didn't even reach 4 tablespoons when it was full. The spice mix was still good, though, even though it was a tad off the recipe.

See? Can't even tell!

Have an adult help you separate the egg whites into another small bowl as shown. Beat them with the fork. Then stir a few nuts into the egg whites.

Amphibious almonds?

Take the nuts out of the egg white and roll them in the sugar and spice mixture.

After dredging enough times, the stuff in both bowls looks about the same. Also your fingers. 

Place the nuts on the cookie sheet. Prepare the rest of the nuts in the same way.

This takes forever. Try rolling multiple nuts at once to save time.

Bake the spiced nuts for 20 minutes. Have an adult remove the cookie sheets from the oven. 

The coating kind of meshes with itself during the baking process. Fortunately, the nuts are very easy to chip out.

Let the nuts cool, and then serve them in a pretty nut or candy dish.

I put them in a mediocre-looking mixing bowl. Same diff. 

My Rating: 4/5 "These are a frustrating but gratifying combination of being really tasty, and really tedious to make. It might be a great recipe to make with a group, so there are multiple people helping out. But in the end, they're a lot like those roasted almonds you get in a wax-paper sleeve at the county fair - and I LOVE those!"