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Famous Tablettes De Guimauve, or French Lozenges of Marshmallows

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Famous Tablettes De Guimauve, or French Lozenges of Marshmallows

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and scrape the roots of marshmallows freshly taken from the earth.

  2. Boil the roots in pure water until they become soft.

  3. Remove the roots from the water and beat them in a marble mortar until they form a smooth paste.

  4. Place the paste on top of an inverted sieve and use a wooden spoon to force the pulp through the sieve.

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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