Spiced Sugar Nuts

By ghinman

Ingredients

• 4 cups walnuts
• 1 egg white
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 tbls. cinnamon
• 1 cup sugar

Preparation

Step 1

Put egg white and salt in large bowl and beat with whisk until frothy, but not stiff. In second bowl mix together sugar and cinnamon. Pour nuts into the egg white and stir until nuts are all coated. Then pour sugar mixture over nuts and stir until well coated. Grease 2 cookie sheets with shortening (not butter). Place nuts on sheet and bake at 250 degrees for about 15 min.-until sugar has crystalized and nuts are dry but not brown. Turn off heat and allow pans to stay in oven for about 10 min. Remove from oven and let stand about a minute. Loosen from pan with spatula. When cool, separate nuts.