European Recipes:Polish Recipes:Marcepan

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       Title: MARCEPAN
  Categories: Candies, Polish, Holiday
       Yield: 2 pounds
 
       1 lb Almonds (blanched),
            -finely ground
       1 lb Sugar, powdered
            -(confectioner's sugar)
            Food colouring
       2 tb Orange water or rose
            -water (Can be obtained
            -from your local
            -drugstore)
            Decorations
 
   Combine ground almonds, sugar and flavouring in a
   saucepan.  Cook until mixture leaves side of pan.
   Roll almond mixture on a flat surface to about
   1/2-inch thickness.  Cut into shapes, mold, paint with
   food colouring, decorate, etc.  Place on wax paper to
   dry for 2 hours.
  
   NOTES:
  
   *  Marzipan -- This recipe could be used as part of a
   12-course meal known in Polish as Wigilia, or on its
   own. Wigilia is eaten after sundown on Christmas Eve.
 

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