[Sca-cooks] A question about dates and marzipan

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

In the Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook (13th c.), there is a recipe for
a candy which can be shaped as the cook pleases.  I won't quote the
whole recipe, because it isn't relevant, but the instructions contain
this line: "While it is still warm, give it the shape of dates stuffed
with almonds".
I would assume that means that people did indeed stuff almonds into
dates.  Don't know about marzipan.

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Brighid ni Chiarain
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