marchpane

Noun

marzipan (usually uncountable, plural marzipans)

1. (usually) A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.
2. (usually) A similar confection made using another nut, such as peanut or hazelnut.
   • Place the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and grill […] then grind finely […] then add the caster sugar and ground hazelnuts [to egg whites] and mix to a stiff marzipan paste. Sandwich the pecan nuts together in pairs with a little of the hazelnut marzipan.2009, Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Christmas Recipes: Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook, (Please provide the book title or journal name), Hamlyn, →ISBN
3. (countable, usually) A piece of such a confection.
   • One afternoon not long afterwards you waited byher bedside as she swam through anesthetic. A box of cherry chocolates and a dozen roses in your lap. Cherry chocolates and chocolate-covered marzipans. Then you drove her home. Chocolate-covered marzipans being her favorite.2002, Lance Olsen, Girl Imagined by Chance, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 81

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