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

[Olwen the Odd]

I'll make up a bit tonight and take it to fighter practice to see what folks
think.  I was going to bring some apples and a a pineapple along too.
Sounds like it may do well with the apples but not the pineapple.  I will
certainly be an ugly colour.
Olwen

>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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