Heart to Hearth Cookery

Preparing a March-pane

  To make March-pane, I took a pound of almonds, blanched and put to them three quarters of a pound of double refined sugar, and beat them with a few drips of rose-flower water.  Having stored many batches of march-pane, I was ready to prepare the receipt (recipe) To make March-pane.  In the picture you see me working the paste with a boxwood confectionery tool to make an edge about it prior to the baking in an oven.  The march-pane sits on a wafer made ahead with my wafer iron.