Can I get esslinger neckar-kiesel in America?

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Alwin E

Seems quite easy to me:

"chocolate, marzipan, apricots, and almonds" -- yes, take all of those ingredients and shred them through an almond or nut grinder, or in a kitchen machine with the sharpest blade it has. Start with the hardest stuff first, i.e. the almonds, then add the chocolate and the (dried!) apricots, and finish with the marzipan. If the stuff gets too dry, add some honey, if it gets too wet, add more almonds or dried apricots. (If you like, you can add coconut flakes.) Try the dough quite often!
(If you can't get marzipan / marchpane, leave it out completely, just use almonds and honey, but add grinded hazelnuts to sweeten the dough and soak up the moisture from the honey.)

Now this dough is quite fine enough to eat it like it is. You can roll it into little balls and roll these maybe in some coconut flakes. We used to call them "energy balls", as they're really nutritious, and they can be kept in a dry place for at least two or three weeks.

To make "Neckarstones", or "Rhinestones", or after whatever river you'd like to call them, do the following:

Form them into somethin pebble-like, like the pebbles you'd find in a river, and put the dough into a warm place for two or three hours to let the surface dry. Prepare a mixture of hand-warm water and powdered sugar to which you add just a bit of fresh lemon juice, divide it into several portions, and give them all a different color using some food coloring. With the help of a fork or any other tool, give the pebbles the appropriate icing, and let them dry on baking paper or something similar.

And that's the whole secret. I know they will never be like those that are industrially made, because you lack the artificial flavors and the hardening substances for the icing in your kitchen; but it will be close.

subst99

I think you'll find that they sell the same kind of candy in almost any German tourist destination that is either close to a river, or close to a lake or the sea. I don't know where exactly that trend started, but it has certainly spread almost nationwide by now.
So, you'd find Mannheimer Rhein-Kiesel, etc. etc.

Maybe that info helps you widening your search....

Christian F

in america u can get many candys like reeses twix m&ms skittles etc. but we dont really have foreign candy exept for toblerone which is swiss

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