SC - Help! To the Queen's Taste

[harper at idt.net]

And it came to pass on 30 Nov 00, , that Angie Malone wrote:

> I feel sort of stupid asking this, 

There are no stupid questions (actually, there are, but this isn't one 
of them).

> but what is the difference between Marchpane and marzipan?  

Just the language.  One is the English name, the other is German.  
The other European names sound pretty similar.

> The reason why I ask is there is an article in the
> Autumn 2000 Tournaments Illuminated titled Marchpane recipes.  I noticed
> the bibliography has some references to Marzipan.

The TI article deals mostly with English recipes, and therefore uses 
the period English name.  I tend to use "marzipan" because it is 
the modern term I am familiar with.


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mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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