[Sca-cooks] Marzipan sauce anyone? (was Re: An Evil Thought- Excercise in Intelligence)

[Heleen Greenwald]

Some questions please?
What does "distemper" mean?  All I can think of is a dog's distemper shot.
And, what would you use this sauce for? Cake? ice cream? (ha ha) and how
thick or thin would this sauce be?
Thanks
Phillipa
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> > [111.]  Sapore de marzapane.  Piglia quatro dita de marzapane he
> pistalo cum uno poco de zenzaro bono, poi distempara cum suco de limoni
> he de granate dolce he forte; he sera bono sapore.
>
> (Marzipan Sauce.  Get four fingers of marzipan, grind it up with a
> little good ginger and distemper it with lemon juice and strong, sweet
> pomegranate juice.  This is a good sauce.)
>
> The Neapolitan Recipe Collection: Cuoco Napoletano
> Terence Scully, (trans.)
> University of Michigan Press
> ISBN: 0-472-10972-3
>
>
> - Doc
>