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

[Olwen the Odd]

>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".

>Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann

Thank you Brighid.  I put aside her email so I could go look it up.  Odd,
seems I should know this stuff off the top of my head but I don't keep
information like that stored because I *can* look it up.  hmm..does that
make sense to anyone?
Olwen

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