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

[Sue Clemenger]

Yum!
Does it offer suggestions as to what it would be best served with?
--maire, marzipan lover

Daniel Myers wrote:
>
> On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 10:33 PM, Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
> >
> > You can't really sauce marzipan, it would dissolve.
> > I bet she would try though.  Maybe run the marzipan through
> > a Play-Doh Fun Factory [extruder toy for pseudo-clay] maybe?
>
> Funny, but I just stumbled across the recipe below earlier this evening.
>
> [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
>
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