[Sca-cooks] Re: Playing With Marzipan

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings.  If you really want to see some fantabulous marzipan
creations, find a copy of _Decorations, Borders and Letters,
Marzipan, and Modern Desserts_ by Bilheux and Escoffier.  It is one
of the volumes of the Professional French Pastry Series.  The book
may be out of print now.  The copyright in mine is 1988.  However,
the contents are "wowzer"!  The marzipan section contains how to
make flowers, how to paint on colors white marzipan, making leaves,
inscriptions on marzipan parchment, making sculptures and applying
color, making fruits and vegetables and steop-by-step instructions
to make cutesy animals.  You can get some marvelous ideas!

The wild part about this book (and the others in the series) is the
final section of photographs and descriptions of entries in a
food-related competition, the Charles Proust.  The entries are
unbelievable.

I don't know if this would be available in a library, or if one
could request it on one of those "hard to find" book web sites.  The
original was about $70.  (If you come by Cleveland, come see my
copies of the three I have.)

Alys Katharine