[Sca-cooks] Macarons
drakey at internode.on.net
drakey at internode.on.net
Sun Jul 18 23:37:14 PDT 2010
Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book (1604 I think...) has a recipe for
them also...
Drakey.
On Mon 19/07/10 6:27 AM , "Terry Decker" t.d.decker at att.net sent:
Anytime something gets traced to Catherine d' Medici I reach for the
salt
shaker. Her legendary cooks (and in at least one tale, the monks who
originated the macaroon with them) are likely myth. Married in 1533,
she
was a minor court figure until 1560, when she became regent for her
second
son, Charles. She was at the peak of her power between 1560 and 1574
and it
is in this period that she became the trendsetter for France.
Linguistically, macaron does tie to the Italian, maccaroni, meaning
dumpling
and the English macaroon derives from the French, so there may be
something
to the connection with Catherine. However, I would expect this to be
later
than the 1533 date most of the tales tout.
There is an English reference to macaroons at the end of the 16th
Century
(I'll have to dig for the source) and there is a reference from one
of
Markham's texts in 1611.
Bear
> We are trying to find some additional period information on
macarons - the
> almond cookies from France. All we seem to be able to determine is
that
> Catherine de Medici brought them with her.
>
> If anyone has anything more informative we'd be grateful.
>
> Shoshana
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