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Marzipan & Sweet Sugar Glaze
by [Sylvia Rote]
adapted from
The Good House Keeping Illustrated Cook Book
Makes about 4 ½ pounds of candy. Prepare a day in advance.
This is a lovely candy that is all sugar, almond, and whatever flavor you add. Marzipan is not only a great candy, but it can really dress up a cake. Your teeth will ache just reading this recipe.
First you need to make the marzipan dough.
2 cups of canned almond paste
4 egg whites (fry up the yokes and feed them to you cat and or dog)
12 + cups confectioner’s sugar (powdered sugar. Keep an extra cup in case)
Food coloring paste
Fruit extract (your choice, but no more than three, preferably)
In a VERY large bowl, knead your egg whites with your almond paste until thoroughly mixed, then slowly add in your confectioner’s sugar. I would recommend using a fine sifter for adding the sugar.
This will take a long time and the kneading will slowly get harder and harder, but don’t give up!
When you have mixed about 12 cups of sugar into a thick paste, split the mass into as many different sections as you have fruit extracts, and place them into bowls. Add about one tablespoon of the extract to the section you wish to flavor. Banana, orange, and lemon are popular, but other flavors like vanilla and honey are great. Knead the flavoring in and add sugar as needed to maintain the consistency.
Now, to color your candy: I use the paste food coloring because I like how it mixes with the sugary dough, but the watery food coloring works great, too. Add only two drops of coloring at a time, and thoroughly mix well into the sugar. You of course want your color to show, but you don’t want make your pear marzipan Kelly green!
Once you have mixed in the color and flavoring into the dough to suit your taste, shape the marzipan into shapes like strawberries, oranges, apples, etc. Place you shapes on some wax paper or in a shallow baking pan. This is also the time to “paint” details into your candy. Use a CLEAN, fine paint brush, and with slightly watered down food coloring paste, detail your candy. Once you are happy with the shapes and coloring, use a spoon to pour your glaze on the candy, coating it completely.
Sugar Glaze
In a 2 quart sauce pan, cook 1 cup of water with 4 ½ cups water over medium heat, stirring continuously, until sugar is dissolved at about 220ºF (104.44ºC). Remove the pan from the heat and let cool, but DO NOT stir.
Let your candy dry over night. Now, I’m still working on it, but I hope to get really good at making some lovely marzipan displays. Here are some sites with marzipan images.
www.food-info.net/uk/products/sweets/marzipan.htm
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/marzipan-frosting-babies.shtml
http://forayintofood.blogspot.com/2007/12/marzipan-fruits.html
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