Marzipan question WAS:Re: Tea and cookies WAS:Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: Flinging large rocks

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 21 Dec 2002, at 22:46, Isabella di Giovanni wrote:

> By the way, when was marzipan invented? Does anybody know how?
> Isabella...who wishes she had that much talent

The oldest recipe for marzipan (though it doesn't use that name) is
an Arabic one.  I *think* it's from the 13th century Anonymous
Andalusian Cookbook.  The oldest recipe which uses that name (or
a variant thereof) is in the 14th c. Catalan confectionary manual:
"Per Fer Mersepa".


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