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Cooked Marzipan Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Cooked Marzipan Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Take a small piece of uncolored marzipan and shape it into small potato-like forms.

  2. Use a wooden skewer to make eyes on each piece.

  3. Place the shaped marzipan on a wire sieve over hot water and steam thoroughly.

  4. Roll the steamed marzipan on paper sprinkled with unsweetened cocoa powder until they reach the desired color.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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