SC - Re: Pine Nut Confection
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Thu Dec 31 06:43:35 PST 1998
Margaret wrote:
>Also, does anyone know how late flour started to be mixed with
>marzipan to make cookies (your basic Mexican wedding cookie/almond
>crescent/humdah Christmas cookie).
It wasn't within the SCA period. The late 17th-century recipes I have
seen don't use it. A few years ago I had questioned the use of sugar
syrup in making marzipan since most of the English recipes don't have
that variation, but modern ones do. Then, I found a mid-1600s French
recipe with a sugar syrup added. As for adding flour, I would wonder
if it might not be in the latter part of the 1700s at the earliest.
There was a lot of innovative dessert making going on then. Wonder if
I have any cookery books in that time period??
Alys Katharine
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