Dear boronia: and a day without marzipan is a day without marchpane.
When I was small, my mother would make candy by pouring sufficiently
cooked syrup over a packed pan of snow, which would chill it until it
was semi-solid and wouln't stick to our fingers. I thought it got its name
from the fact it was often March when we made it.
marzipan
n.
5Ger < It marzapane, confection, earlier, the small box containing it, small dry measure, certain weight < ML matapanus, Venetian coin with figure of Christ on a throne < Ar mauthaban, seated king (< wathaba, to sit)6 a confection of ground almonds, sugar, and egg white made into a paste and variously shaped and colored