Upon our early stage a kind of biscuit -- a "marchpane" -- was consumed by the players when they required to eat upon the stage. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
"marchpane" — (a confection of bitter almonds and sugar) — representing the. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Take a pound of marchpane paste being finely beaten, and put into it. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
She offered a square of marchpane, a candied fruit placed like a dark jewel in its centre. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Heart]
"I'd rather live on bread in a garret and serve the Temples than feast on marchpane and capon and -". From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
Then came a huge roast, and finally a sweet dish, with fruits, spice-cakes, and Königsberg marchpane. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
Then have preserved oranges canded, and fill them with marchpane paste and sugar, and set them by also. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Raisons with almonds, bisket-bread, marchpane-stuffe, suckets, and the like, are not here forbidden to be eaten. From Wordnik.com. [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference
Take a pound of the best Jordan almonds, blanch them in cold water as you do marchpane, being blanched wipe them dry in a clean cloth. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
The second course at a feast included 'joly amber potage; jiggots of venison, stopped with cloves; lamprey, with galentine, marchpane; fritter-dolphin; leche-florentine'. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)] Reference
Know in Britain as marchpane, this sugar and almond paste concoction was introduced into Europe during the 13th century and became popular because it was easily sculpted and molded into fanciful shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
"It's a good thing that you've put so much marchpane on it," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
She's the young limb o 'mischief for whom I ravaged your stores of marchpane. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
He ate heartily and quickly, while the two waited for him and nibbled at marchpane. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. From Wordnik.com. [Romeo and Juliet] Reference
The friends of his house sent peacocks and pheasants by the dozen, and huge pies of marchpane, and game in quantities. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Little George, then two and a half years old, had been taken suddenly ill after a supper on marchpane and plum broth, washed down by. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference
Eat this slice of marchpane, it will help your digestion; then shall you be presented with a cup of claret hippocras, which is right healthful and stomachal. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
During Elizabeth I’s reign, a showpiece made of marchpane was presented at the end of each meal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
"Sir George sent the venison, sir," said the gaoler, grinning, "and Master Piersey the wild fowl, and Madam West the pasty and the marchpane, and Master. From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
You shall have a paste or conserve of orange, or perhaps a dish of cloves and marchpane kneaded up with peel of orange, or a dish made up with oranges boiled with parsnips — ". From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Polly, where is the marchpane?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dressmaker] Reference
"They shall have none of the marchpane thou didst make yestere'en. From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
Juliet "one of the servants says:" Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
She can enjoy a chocolate cigar, for instance, as well as another; and as for marchpane, I have her own word that she adores it. ". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
"Do you, by any chance, like marchpane?". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
"Well, I stole a pocketful of marchpane.". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
"I never eat marchpane.". From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference
"Will you eat a marchpane?". From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference
You won't forget the marchpane? ". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
"Yes, I'm aware of her passion for marchpane. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
Christmas goose, fruit cake, lambswool, marchpane/marzipan, mince meat pies, plum pudding. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Hot herringpies, green mugs of sack, honeysauces, sugar of roses, marchpane, gooseberried pigeons, ringocandies. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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