SC - Almond Paste/marzipan

[Helen]

I thought of that and looked.  The sugar was excatly the same!

cclark at vicon.net wrote:

> Helen wrote:
> > Please tell me the difference between marzipan and almond paste.   I thought
> >marzipan was made from the paste. But the tube of paste I see in my local
> >store has the same ingredients listed as the tube of marzipan beside it. ...
>
> Here's where the nutritional information can come in handy. If I recall
> correctly, the stuff sold as almond paste has considerably less sugar than
> the stuff sold as marzipan, even though the ingredients lists look the same.
> This is also helpful with chocolate, where there can be many different
> formulations using the same ingredients.
>
> Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon
>
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