Marchpaine Cakes

Item

Title

Marchpaine Cakes

Date

en 1694/1795

Description

Recipe for making "marchpaine cakes," or marzipan cakes, using sugar, almonds, and rose water.
Early form of Marzipan. Also see OED Marchpane. Originally: a flat disc of marzipan mounted on wafers and usually decorated with motifs made from similar paste or other materials (by the 18th cent. often iced with sugar and mounted on a rich fruit cake, esp. a bridecake). Subsequently: a cake or sweet made of marzipan

Transcript

[inserted left margin: fob] Marchpaine Cakes

[inserted left margin: 15] Take a Pound of Blanched Almonds, and a pound of Loafe Suger beat them to gether till thay be very small, then beat in to it 2 spounefuls of rose water make it up in what formes you please, put them in the oven after the other be drawn oute.

Contributor

en Oberle, George
en Ochsner, Elizabeth
Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.