SC - advice needed

[Eileigh]

At 1:24 AM -0500 11/7/99, Ann & Les Shelton wrote:

>Pie Which They Call Marzapan
>
>Make the pie which they call marzapan this way.  Grind almonds which
>have stood in freshwater a day and a night and which are as carefully
>washed as possible, continually sprinkling lightly with fresh water so
>they will not produce oil.  If you want the best, add as much of the
>best sugar as of almonds.  When all has been well pounded and soaked in
>rose water, spread in a pan filled with a light undercrust and moistened
>often with rose water.  Put in an oven, sprinkling continually with
>ground sugar with a bit of rose water so that it will not be dried too
>much... {snip}
>
>
>My redaction:
>
>1 cup almonds
>1 cup sugar
>1/4 cup rosewater
>1 commercial pie shell, baked blind
>
>I ground the almonds in my blender, then added the sugar and got them
>well mixed to the consistency of fine breadcrumbs.


The original calls for sprinkling on water as you grind "so they will 
not produce oil." Have you tried doing it that way, to see if it 
makes any difference? Similarly, have you tried actually pounding 
them in a mortar, which sounds as though it is what Platina is 
describing, to see how similar the result is to grinding in a blender?

Similar questions with regard to the final sentence of the original, 
which you also don't describe doing in your redaction.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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