Peanut Candy
Confection
Top 10 pairings
Peanut candy is a broad family of hard or fudge-like confections made by binding roasted, ground or chopped peanuts in a matrix of cooked sugar, syrup or molasses. It ranges from the brittle, glassy bars sold across Asia to the crumbly, sugar-bound Latin American pé-de-moleque and mamallada and the soft "peanut butter fudge" of North America.
Picking a good onedrag
Glassy, sharp-snapping, nuttyWelded, damp, rancid
Tinned and dryEveryday bestThe keep-well market sweet: a piece after a meal, in a lunchbox, or broken into a bowl for the table.
Snap a pieceStill snaps, but duller, and it gives a moment before it finally goes
Smell the nutFaintly nutty and sweet; the roast has gone quiet behind the sugar
Read the surfaceGloss dulled to a matte film, colour still an even amber throughout
How it was keptA paper bag off a busy stall, broken from a slab that was poured that day