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

[Daniel Myers]

Nope.  The only other thing related to this recipe was a note Scully
made that it was pretty much unique among cookbooks from that time, and
that it would be a sweet and sour sort of sauce.


On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 08:27 AM, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> 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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