What is one of the main ingredients of marzipan, besides egg whites and sugar?
Marzipan 1%. German marzipan is made by grinding whole almonds with sugar and partially drying the paste, and French marzipan (called 'massepain') is made by combining ground almonds with sugar syrup. Some marzipan is flavoured with rosewater. Spanish marzipan is made without bitter almonds. Sugar free marzipan can be made by replacing sugar with polyols such as maltitol. The German name has largely ousted the original English name "marchpane" with the same apparent derivation: "March bread". (The word "marchpane" occurs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", Act 1, Scene 5, Line 9.) "Marzapane" is documented earlier in Italian than in any other
Marzipan and on ' (All Souls' Day) on November 2. May 9 and 10 are also special days for eating marzipan in Sicily. In Portugal, where the confection has been traditionally made by nuns, marzipan (') is used to make fruit-shaped sweets; in the Algarve region in particular it is a very common sweet. There are other regions, as Toledo in Spain in which marzipan (') is shaped into simple animal shapes, and sometimes filled in with egg yolk (') and sugar. In Greece and Cyprus, marzipan is made in a variety of shapes and sizes and is almost always left