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Grape nuts are twice/multiple times cooked. Same for hardtack. Interesting.

Also incorporate some caramel? Dulce de leche. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOjBGK6k0mw

Also nice coca cola video:

Puffed rice with oil.

Pineapple peel drink?! cool

Microwave existing licorice on super low power with good fan for … 5 minutes? Make sure they don't melt but you want to encourage water evaporation. It doesn't do it well enough at room temperature, but you don't want them to deform either.

• It will be warm, but let them cool off and see what happens!
• Worked ok, but exploded the candy kinda. Try with stovetop or oven?

Experiment with this recipe, you want 260F or so. https://pinchandswirl.com/homemade-salty-black-licorice/. Maybe try the nougat egg white thing again.

Maybe add wheat gluten (the same stuff that makes stale bread really hard to eat)

Sugar stages: https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/sugar-stages.html

Hard and chewy with minimal ingredients!

I like these the best. They didn't have a ton of sugar and took a long time to eat. Kinda like hard licorice (drop) too.

Ingredients:

Brown Rice Syrup, Crystalline Fructose, Soy Protein Isolate, Kashi Seven Whole Grains and Sesame Blend (Whole: Hard Red Winter Wheat, Oats, Rye, Barley, Triticale, Long Grain Brown Rice, Buckwheat, Sesame Seeds), Whey Protein Isolate, Peanut Flour, Chicory Root Fiber, Peanuts, Oat Fiber, Evaporated Cane Juice, Expeller Pressed Canola Oil, Rice Starch, Mechanically Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil, Skim Milk, Vegetable Glycerin, Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Natural Flavors, Soy Lecithin, Magnesium Oxide, Carrageenan, Mixed Tocopherols (For Freshness), Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Vitamin E Acetate, Zinc Oxide, Ferrous Fumarate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Folic Acid, Vitamin B12.

So…normal hard nougat recipe, plus some flour and protein to dilute the sugar?

• Whip egg white before pouring in syrup. Additionally, some recipes continue cooking them afterwards, whereas some stop at this point.
• 120 to 150 C for final temperature. Basically want to evaporate all the moisture.

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/basic-almond-nougat/f537ac56-0082-4d2c-80e2-155a5cd65bca

http://powerhungry.com/2008/06/homemade-cliff-bars-no-bake/

• Can heat sugar/syrup along with peanut butter to create a sticky binder that's still protein-rich! Then throw in whatever you want.

There was also the popsugar article… https://www.popsugar.com/food/How-Make-Homemade-Clif-Bars-37977261

Pretty much like Clif bars, except hopefully cheaper and more satisfying and quiet than a bunch of nuts. Less sugar than dried fruit too

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