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

[Olwen the Odd]

>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

I'm up to try it.  I have made a thickish sweet sauce of marzipan and heavy
cream, heated enough to melt down the marzipan, but not boiling.  It is
fabulous on fruit, ice cream, pastery, your fingers, ok I'll stop now..
Olwen

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