Fw: SC - Puck's marzipan

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>>English marchpanes call for the marzipan to be laid on "wafers".  IIRC,
>>at least one recipe calls for layering the wafers to increase the
>>dimension of the marchpane.  Some English recipes for marchpanes
>>indicate that their thickness is about "two fingers", again IIRC.
>>
>>Alys Katharine


Could you provide more info on marchpanes?  I've never heard of them before,
but they sound interesting, and it seems to me not a big etymological
stretch to think one was derived from the other.

buried in back mail and scrambling to catch up, Puck

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