It is a flavored boiled sugar shaped like a tetrahedron (hence the name berlingot).
The Nantes berlingot would be a derivative of an Italian recipe, the berlingozzo. At the end of the XNUMXth or the beginning of the XNUMXth century, a cantinière of the armies of the Consulate then of the Empire, Mrs Couët, wrote down this recipe, obtained it seems in return for alms given to a poor woman...
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