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Almond paste and egg whites
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marzipan
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A confection of almond paste, sugar and egg white. vb. (cx transitive English) To cover with marzipan.
WordNet
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n. almond paste and egg whites [syn: marchpane ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marchpane \March"pane`\, n. [Cf. It. marzapane,Sp. pan,. massepain, prob. fr. L. maza frumenty (Gr. ma^za) + L. panis bread; but perh. the first part of the word is from the name of the inventor.] A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar or honey and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract. It is often made into sweets ; common uses are chocolate -covered marzipan and small marzipan imitations of ...
Usage examples of marzipan.
Miss Robinson and the schoolmistress, he ate: julienne soup, baked and roast meats with suitable accompaniments, two pieces of a tart made of macaroons, butter-cream, chocolate, jam and marzipan, and lastly excellent cheese and pumpernickel.
They gingerly threaded their way through the sprawling bodies, balancing trays piled high with marzipan, prosciutto cooked in wine, salted pork tongues and sliced spit-roasted songbirds covered in aspic and artfully arranged to form a giant hawk.
He stood on a chair to explore the packets of semolina, marzipan and candied peel, and the stack of brightly-coloured jellies in cellophane wrappers with the Coop trademark printed on them.
Avolaand those from North Africa, Sardinia, and southern Francecontain a small percentage of bitter almonds, which give marzipan and almond milk their characteristic bitter fragrance and taste.
Avola almonds, and his cheerful marzipan stars covered in dark chocolate.
Gingerbreads, tarts, marzipan, and cakes, plus conserves, preserves, and marmalades of every type.
For the second course, the courtiers had dug into boiled mutton, swan, peacocks, roast boar with pudding, wafers, and marzipan.
Hardboileds, toffee, fudge and allsorts, crunches, cracknels, humbugs, glaciers, marzipan, and butterwelsh for the Welsh.
Schmidt bought more of everything that was edible and pressed samples on usgingerbread and candy canes and cookies and pretzels shaped like snowflakes and marzipan pigs wearing sugary wreaths around their sweet pink necksand, of course, beer.
At the center of the state dining room, Maillard had created a fountain, supported by water nymphs of nougat and surrounded by marzipan beehives filled with marzipan bees, producing charlotte russe.
In a pastry-shop window, marzipan pigs gambolled around chocolate cakes.
And when she offered him a slice of marzipan coffee cake, just out of the oven, the priest had been only too happy to accept.
He had huge boxes of fondants, crystallised fruits and marzipan sent over from Paris twice a week when he was at St.
I wasn't surprised by his edginess, because the stairwell was sufficiently cheerless and oppressive to give the heebiejeebies to a Prozac-popping nun with an attitude as sweet as marzipan.
I was immediately struck by the figures around the altar: pretos velhos, caboclos in multicolored feathers, saints who would have seemed to be marzipan were it not for their Pantagruelian dimensions, Saint George in a shining breastplate and scarlet cloak, saints Cosmas and Damian, a Virgin pierced by swords, and a shamelessly hyperrealist Christ, his arms outstretched like the redeemer of Corcovado, but in color.