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The dragee machine is used for coating the nuts with sugar. The heating system placed underneath of drum keeps the sugar melted. While the drum is rotating sugar gets sticks on the products. The machine is usually used for coating the almonds here in Turkey. The machine can be used for making dragees as well. Then comes the very delicate coating phase. Through a complex mechanism, sugar heaten to more than 100 ° is sprayed onto the cores in the form of multiple drops. The operation lasts more than three hours : time to get a sugar shell of the desired thickness before the final stage.To color the dragee is added sugar syrup. The varnish aspect is provided by a food varnish. All the steps to make a dragee last 72 hours. The more sugar layers, the longer the process lasts.Four to five person daily sort by hand : they look for the slightest imperfection. Little damaged, improper size or shape, uneven color … the slightest default dragee is departed.