2006-09-14 13:21:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
I haven't had the pleasure of your company before Guesswest but I approve of "different" questions - bet you're probably brainy or nuts which I also approve of!!!! Marzipan, as you jolly well know is made from almonds. Yummy, scrummy, I would love a large slice of wedding cake right now, but nobody wants to marry me at the moment anyway - perhaps you would like to? Luv Camilla, nearly dead with the lack of sleep and wedding cake.
2006-09-14 13:27:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither. Marzipan is actually made in a kitchen from bat guano and old socks boiled endlessly of a low fire of peat moss and elephant dung. The exact recipe is unknown, mostly because no one has actually made any marzipan since the Napoleonic wars. It is conjectured that the duration of the cooking time has something to do with the decay rate of iron.
Modern Marzipan is usually recycled from older marzipan as no one in their right mind would ever eat the stuff. Marzipan tends to collect in large piles of multi-colored cake decorations and fruit shape thingies. Many companies in Europe and Canada exists for the purpose of collecting old marzipan and repackaging it.
Marzipan has recently been classified a type-two toxic material by the UN commission on world health.
2006-09-14 20:30:51 · answer #2 · answered by Sugarface 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you want to call the kitchen a laboratory...it's made from finely ground almonds and........but I'll bet that you are not really interested in the recipe. Marzipan is a food and should not be in this category anyway!
2006-09-14 20:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Di 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is in actual fact a by-product from treacle mining. As such it is not actually mined itself.
It was discovered by the ancient Cornish treacle miners that the sticky residue left in the burning tubs was particularly tasty when stuck around the outer perimeter of a cake.
This is marzipan, the word itself is Cornish from `marzie` beige and `pan` tub, of course it is refined down to yellow now that beige food is out of favour due to faddishness.
As a matter of fact the word marsupial comes from a similar Cornish route and simply means `beige rabbit`....strange, but true.
2006-09-14 20:42:38 · answer #4 · answered by Robert Abuse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. Some is actually grown on giant marzipan trees.
2006-09-14 20:23:14 · answer #5 · answered by GratefulDad 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is found on factory floors. It was first discovered by machine operators who purposely dropped cakes and placed them back onto the conveyor belt. They got away with it for about half an hour, before the supervisor caught them and took all the credit.
2006-09-14 21:09:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both, actually. The mining is usually done by orthodox Jews, but the labwork is done using multiple subjects (for control factor) with kosher almonds.
I hate it.â»
2006-09-14 20:28:22 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Always mined at the time when the season of bird milking ends.
2006-09-14 20:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is made in a kitchen from ground almonds and food coloring. It is like playdoh with an almond smell. As if you didn't know!
2006-09-14 20:23:59 · answer #9 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stone the crows ! You are dead right, it is mined in Almondia . The pay is not very good though. But then you can't eat your cake and have it .
2006-09-14 20:31:52 · answer #10 · answered by Tracker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋