[Sca-cooks] Macarons

[drakey at internode.on.net]

 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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