[Sca-cooks] Marzipan creations, like onions...

[Sue Clemenger]

I remember it, and have actually made it once.  Got the idea from
someone down in the Sun (uh, Atenveldt, these days...Principality of the
Sun back then), who did them for a Kingdom competition, IIRC.
Yummmm....
You need two things, mainly: grapes and marzipan.  Green grapes work
best.  The idea is to make the grapes look like the marzipan, and make
the marzipan look like the grapes.
The grapes, in small bunches, are brushed with a bit of beaten egg white
and dusted with granulated sugar, and then set on a cookie rack or
plate to "harden."  A lot of cookbooks, including my Joy of Cooking,
give instructions on making "sugared" fruit like this.  I think the egg
white is beaten until "frothy."
The marzipan, having been prepared by whatever recipe/method you prefer,
is rolled into small ovoid balls the size of the grapes.  If you prefer,
you can also roll them in a bit of sugar.  To simulate the "stem" of the
grape, insert the longer, pointy end of a whole clove into the
appropriate end of the marzipan "grape."
Presentation: Using a tray or bowl, as appropriate, intersperse the
bunches of grapes with the marzipan grapes.  You can pick out some of
the real grapes from the bunches, and "replace" them with the marzipan
ones, etc.
Hope this makes sense....
--Maire, certifiable almond/marzipan fiend, who thinks that if Olwen
keeps torturing her with all these descriptions, by golly, she's just
going to have to buy a plane ticket and fly over to one of these durned
East Kingdom events....;-P

"Pixel, Goddess and Queen" wrote:
>
> Ok, now I'm remembering a soeteltie where you use a bunch of grapes and
> marzipan to make another bunch of grapes, and you do things to them so
> that you can't tell them apart. I do not remember *where* I read this,
> however, and I want to make one for an A&S day our college is having with
> the other baronial colleges.
>
> I remember something having to do with egg whites and sugar, but it's very
> vague. I've looked in the flori-thingy and I can't seem to find anything
> about this.
>
> Any hints? Anybody have any clue what I'm talking about?
>
> Margaret
>