Sugarplums = Fruit + Nuts + Spice
By Derrick Schneider
WHEN MY DAUGHTER TURNED FOUR, she had a several-days-long obsession with the Sugarplum Fairy from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. I indulged her by figuring out how to make sugarplums.
My first attempt, an adaptation of a recipe from Alton Brown, was a chunky mix of dried fruit, nuts, and spices held together by honey and rolled in coarse suga…