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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.
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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
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Certainly what you describe would be termed a dibble in the UK and it is the only tool for the purpose that I know of. I don't know how commercial growers do the job, but they must have a mechanised process. I suspect their bulbs don't see natural soil until we buy them and plant them and they have outgrown the compost they came in! Ain't Nature wonderful.
Hello, I just became an Addict
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So if I want to give up, do I call on Betty Ford or is there a specialist clinic?
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This is one addiction that is cured by continued use.
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Or by stretching out in the sun...with Anu's book of course.
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