[Sca-cooks] Almond powder question

[BaronessaIlaria at aol.com]

In a message dated 09/18/2002 8:39:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
adamantius.magister at verizon.net writes:

> No, this is an almond-flavored drink mix, unless I'm very much
>  mistaken, and contains comparatively little, if any, ground almonds.
>  I have a can of this somewhere in my kitchen, but couldn't find it to
>  get the ingredients. I STR it contains a lot of sugar, almond
>  flavoring, and some starch and/or agar-agar for thickening.

Thank you for the info. I managed to scrape the make-it-legal-for-US
nutritional label off and found that the ingredients are: Sugar, almond, corn
starch, milk powder, dried almond, and glucose. Drat..

Ground almonds seem to be thin on the ground here and my food processor has
had a myocardial infrarction, so it appears the marzipan is a lost cause. You
would think in a city with an 900K plus population, one of the health food
stores or fancy schmancy groceries at least would have almond paste! Maybe
I'm spoiled from having grown up in the Wash DC area....  ::sigh::

Oh well, at least this stuff smells really good!

Ilaria