[Sca-cooks] OLWEN'S MARZIPAN

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Thanks for clueing me in to marzipan!
We don;t have a restaurant deppt here but I will start looking around to see
what I can come up with. I think it would be fun to play with the stuff and
color it and all.
Phillipa

> I have made my own marzipan from scratch.  It is a not that much fun and is
> costly.  I get almond paste in #10 cans, which is 7 pounds of paste, at
> Restaraunt Depot.  That is a restaurant supply house.  I mix the 7 pounds of
> paste with 7 pounds of powdered sugar in Master Chirharts kitchenaide.  It
> is great fun and very messy.  I store the marzipan in ziplock bags in the
> vegetable bin in the fridge.  It can keep up to a year or so if you have it
> that long.  I make and use somewhere in the area of 60 to 80 pounds of
> marzipan a year.  This year you can add at least 24 more pounds to that as I
> have a rather daunting soltie planned for 12th night.  It is my
> understanding, although I have never used it, that the stuff that comes
> premade in those little expensive plastic tubes is not very condusive to
> molding with.  Having never used it I am not sure that adding a little more
> powdered sugar to it may stiffen it up enough to be more user friendly.  It
> may be worth a try.
> Olwen
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