Marshmellows???!
Marshmellows???
Who is the first to make a marshmellow???
Answers:
...In 1948, Alex Doumak, a marshmallow manufacturer, began experimenting with different methods of marshmallow making. Doumak was looking for ways to speed up production and discovered the "extrusion process", which revolutionized marshmallow production. Now, marshmallows can be made by piping the fluffy mixture through long tubes and cutting its tubular shape into equal pieces.
I am not sure who made them first but they have been around for a long time. The traditional recipe used an extract from the mucilaginous root of the marshmallow plant, a shrubby herb (Althaea officinalis), instead of gelatin; the mucilage performed as a cough suppressant by native americans.
Commercial marshmallows are a late 19th century innovation. Since Doumak's patented extrusion process of 1948, marshmallows are extruded as soft cylinders, cut in sections and rolled in a mix of finely powdered cornstarch and confectioner's sugar.
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This came from the Peeps people:
"Marshmallow candy dates back to ancient Egypt where it was a honey-based candy flavored and thickened with the sap of the root of the Marsh-Mallow plant (althea officinalis). Marsh-Mallow grows in salt marshes and on banks near large bodies of water. It is common in the eastern United States. Until the mid 1800's, marshmallow candy was made using the sap of the Marsh-Mallow plant. Gelatin replaces the sap in the modern recipes."
egyptians used to take the pithy stuff from marsh grass and prepare it in omweay then eat it.
i don't know but there good
easy, yummy marshmellow recipe.
Place favorite ice cream at room temperature so it's easy to spread.
Buy a grahm cracker pie crust, fill it with ice cream, cover with fudge or caramel sauce and freeze for a day, so it is solid.
Remove from freezer and place marshmellows that have been slice in half on top of pie, and place in the oven on broil just until the marshmellows start to brown. Serve. You will be very happy.
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