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Marcepan

Courses: Dessert
Serves: 2 people

Recipe Ingredients

500   Blanched almonds - finely ground
500   Powdered sugar - (confectioner's sugar)
30   Orange water or rose water
  Food colouring and decorations

Recipe Instructions

1. Combine ground almonds, sugar and flavouring in a saucepan. Cook until mixture leaves side of pan.

2. Roll almond mixture on a flat surface to a 1-cm thickness. Cut into shapes, mold, paint with food colouring, decorate, etc.

3. Place on wax paper to dry for 2 hours.

Author's Notes: 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.

Source:
Original recipe passed down through the generations and tran

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