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

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Hm.  That sounds yummy.  Something to go with a plain cake [or vanilla ice
cream if we're not at an event].

I would be so easy to poison, a little something extra in the Amaretto or
Marzipan...

Selene the vulnerable

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