SC - Re: Marchpane base recipe

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings!  The "Dining With William Shakespeare" has a delicious 
cookie base (lots of butter) to put under the marchpane.  It isn't 
period but it's delicious anyhow.  Period sources say "wafers" so I 
think pretty much any of the sweet wafers would work (as opposed to 
savory ones).  If you have a pizzelle maker, try some of those.  Does 
that help at all?  (Now, to me, I don't know _how_ one would make a 
large pizzelle if one wanted a marchpane bigger than what comes out of 
the pizzelle maker.  I suppose you could smoosh a few together - cut 
off rounded parts, for example, and add the marzipan on top.  You would 
probably want to bake the thing on bakers' parchment, which is 
mentioned in some period sources.)

Alys Katharine


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