sca-cooks Authentic cookery

[Ron Martino Jr]

On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Beth Morris wrote:

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> Back in our heyday of marzipan concocting, Jaelle & I used commercial
> candy colors to color it, and molded it using everything available -
> plastic candy molds, the PlayDoh pumper, hands, any available tools.  

Not to mention metal cookie cutters. You would be surprised what you can
use to model it!

There are some good books out there on marzipan modeling - although these
days I am trying to get into using period dyes for coloring it (provided
they are safe to eat - not all are).

Jaelle


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