Marchpane
Marchpane (from Dutch — Marzipan, derived from Italian — Marzzapane — Easter Bread of March) represents an elastic mixture of powdered sugar with grated, powdered nuts, generally, — almond. This mixture, where sugar composes from one third to two fifth, gives the real, classic Marchpane paste that can be nicely formed without additional gluing components. One can stamp sweets both small to coffee and confectionery. Such Marchpane sweets may be candied with sugar, lemon or chocolate icing or remain without icing, which is much better for it keeps the tender taste of Marchpane itself.
Marchpane originated in France, yet its broad spreading reached the peak in Germany (in XVIII—XIX centuries) and Austria. Unfortunately, our confectionary industry does not produce such extraordinary and original sweeties. One of the main reasons is lack of knowledge of real Marchpane’ s receipts, improper usage of proportions and mixture of different nuts’ stuff (filbert, almond, and walnut) in industry’s production of Marchpane foodstuffs. Meanwhile filberts, walnuts or pine nuts consist of butter staff that differs from almond’s one, and, therefore, disregarding their high nutritional values, are not able to give the gluing needed to make a Marchpane mixture.
Our children read fairy tales of Andersen, Hauff, Hoffmann, Grimm brothers, where mentioning about Marchpane is symbolized with kids’ happiness. And, probably, parents are not always able to explain their children what Marchpane means. Meanwhile, Marchpane is a natural and useful sweetie for kids: nuts and a bit of powdered sugar. This is a universal gift for both children and their parents.
The real Marchpane, produced of fresh grated almond, is a fantastic thing! It is not cheap, but the money spent — certainly justify themselves!
Marchpane sweeties — are the part of culinary culture of Europe. TM “Rud” has used Marchpane to produce a premium-class ice cream. Thus, Ukrainian consumers will join soon the outstanding European taste!
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