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Show Marzipan: Famed Holiday Sweet Marzipan, which is basically basi-cally a simple combination of almonds and sugar, is considered the peerless confection con-fection for holiday tables, all over Europe. It appears in many forms not only exquisite bonbons, usually shaped into fruits and vegetables, veg-etables, but also as the delicious deli-cious bittersweet ingredient m all sorts of cakes and cookies and pastries. Marzipan has an ancient history, having been cre ated by the Persians and Egyptians shortly after the birth of Christ. It has always al-ways been associated with elaborate dishes and decorations, deco-rations, especially at Christmas. Christ-mas. Then, bakeries display cakes and cookies trimmed with holly leaves and figures fig-ures of Santa Claus in colored col-ored marzipan. Some of the fine patisseries create elaborate elab-orate sculptured displays showing entire scenes. |