Marzipan: description and composition. Marzipan candy - what do you do?

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Perhaps in the world, it is impossible to find someone who would be completely indifferent to sweets. We are so constituted that a bite of something delicious can cause short-term feelings of happiness. Today I want to say a few words about the marzipan, an exclusive delicacy. If you have tried it for once in your life, you probably remember the unique taste and wanted to know more about its composition. Marzipan can be done at home, and in this case, the quality of the end product will benefit.

The fact that the walnut, which is the basis of sweetness, quite expensive. Therefore, manufacturers seek to replace it with something else, and for flavor add chemical additives. The quality of this loses, but the product is more available and competitive in price.composition marzipan

What we call marzipan

Many of you will now remember the paste for decorating cakes, smooth and shiny. You're right, it's really about her. And what is its composition? Marzipan-is a confection that is prepared on the basis of finely ground almonds and sugar. Classic marzipan is a pliable mass, which allows it to be used, among other things, to create decorations and figurines for cakes. It is used as a filling for candies.

A Little history

And when the world first learned about this simple but exquisite sweetness? In order to answer this question, again you need to pay attention to the composition. Marzipan is made from almonds, and hence the production had to start where much. Several European countries have disputed the palm in the production of this confection.

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The Old tradition of making marzipan sweets there are in Germany and Austria, Holland and Italy. But most known of them are produced in the North of Germany. And for a long time kept secret unique composition. Marzipan is not really intended as exclusive sweetness. Just almond flour was used because of lack or complete absence of wheat flour. Marzipan bread so much that it was used and in good times, but as a dessert.marzipan composition

Specialization

Interestingly, until the XVIII century the production of marzipan was practiced not only by the confectioners, and chemists. Only much later, this skill is completely moved to the pastry. And very soon this product has become very expensive due to increase in prices of sugar and almonds. But today, this sweetness continues to be highly prized, but now we can afford it. The prevalence and availability of this delicacy is very high.

Tricks of modern production

For anybody not a secret that today many products are made of synthetic analogues or substitutes. Was no exception and marzipan. The composition should include only almonds, sugar and rose water. And that is today on the shelves, often has no relation to the legendary sweets.

Instead of almond paste can go any nuts, but most often it is peanuts. But very often in the overall composition is soy or beans, various artificial fillers and taste flavors. The reader may be interested to know that the old records of the cookbooks included rubbing almonds on a small grater and sugar long rubbing the mass in a mortar. Due to this, achieved higher plasticity of the mass. Time for production of sweets has gone very much, that explained a high price.what makes marzipan composition

Properties of wood

They determined that what makes the marzipan. The composition, which the manufacturer is obliged to indicate on the package, and indicate whether to buy this product. If this is almonds, the product of it fully preserves all the properties of this useful nut. And it is very rich in vitamins B and E, and other antioxidants. But most of all it minerals. Just a few nuts a day will supply your body with phosphorus and potassium, magnesium and many others.

Knowing what the nut is part of the marzipan, you will be good to understand that you will receive regular use. Almonds removes sand from the kidney, normalizes the liver and pancreas and purifies blood. It is a natural analgesic that has besides, and anticonvulsant effects. The use of nuts is obvious in bronchial asthma, stress and insomnia. As you can see, marzipan is much better than usual confectionery.grondard marzipan composition

Cooking at home

Actually there is nothing difficult. The main thing-to know the composition of marzipan in candy and can reproduce a full analogue of. You'll need to take 150 grams of almond nuts and clean them from the dark shell. For this them for a minute and pour the boiling water and then immediately with cold water. After that, the shell is easily removable, and the nuts need to be dried on the napkin. Next is to chop the almonds into very fine crumbs in a grinder or in a blender.

Now for the chips you want to add 100 g of powdered sugar. It is better to take industrial as home notso it turns out fine grinding. To this mixture is necessary to add a teaspoon of rum and water or milk, some bakers suggest using crude protein from the quail eggs. This knead smooth dough. Of the liquid in it should be enough that the dough does not stick to hands and the table. If the liquid is too small, the kneading process will begin to stand out almond oil, which is absolutely not necessary. From this mass to form a round candy, inside of which is placed a nut or a toffee, and the top can be poured with chocolate.what kind of nut is included with marzipan

Artwork

Does the store you can't buy quality candy and they definitely need to do it yourself? Not at all. In St. Petersburg there are excellent online shop Grondard. Marzipan, which is repeats of old recipes, there really is, it is produced and packaged on order and in production mode.

Among residents of the Northern capital this store is very popular as it gives the opportunity to make an exquisite gift, with a personal design to colleagues, family and friends.Ritter sport marzipan composition

Popular Ritter Sport

You don't have to order from the online store because it is sold in every supermarket. How natural is from "Ritter Sport" "Marzipan". The good part, but marzipan contains not more than 16 %. Everything else – sugar, cocoa, emulsifiers and syrup. Therefore, if you plan to try this almond recipe, it is recommended to find another option. In particular, you can master the home production of these sweets, fortunately it is not too difficult. In this case you will know for sure that I made as a dessert.


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