Pé-de-moleque
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Pé-de-moleque ("brat's foot") is a traditional sweet from the Brazilian cuisine made of peanuts and molasses.
The sweet is prepared in a very easy process, by mixing roasted, peeled peanuts to melted brown sugar or rapadura, with or without the addition of macerated peanuts as well. The mixture is slightly moved in low heat until it gets close to crystallise. Then the mixture is distributed over a plain stone or metal surface (preferrably thinly ointed with butter to ease removal) in pieces similar in size to cookies. This traditional preparation results in soft, irregularly-shaped sweets of dark brown colour. Softness results from the incorporation of peanut oil.
Besides the traditional process, the sweet is also produced industrially, by mixing melted sugar to peanuts and then pouring the mix into square moulds, resulting in hard bars of a lighter colour.
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Recipe:
Total time: 1 hour
3 cups water 2 pounds brown sugar 1 pounds whole roasted peanuts - shelled 1 teaspoon salt
Makes about 24 patties
Boil water and sugar until it spins a thread. Put in the peanuts and salt and mix lightly. Make patties, using a tablespoon as a measuring guide. Let cool on greased marble or cookie sheet.
