{"id":37684,"date":"2019-07-17T03:09:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/?p=37684"},"modified":"2018-12-30T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T06:22:55","slug":"the-art-of-the-almond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-art-of-the-almond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Almond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marzipan is popular treat, especially in Europe, made of ground almonds (almond meal) mixed with sugar or honey — sometimes with added almond oil. It is often molded into the shape of fruit and vegetables and tinted with food coloring, as seen in these window displays in Venice. I though these little pieces of marzipan quite beautiful and tried a piece — tasty but heavy, not really my style. <\/p>\n

Besides being shaped to look like fruit, marzipan can also rolled flat and used an icing layer for fruitcakes and the like, and sometimes is used as a baking ingredient, as in a German “stollen”.<\/p>\n

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