17.10.10

Macarons!

If you don't know about macarons, this is your lucky day.  The macaron is an elusive thing, not truly translatable and hardly ever found in the United States.  The name would make you think that this delicious dessert is merely a macaroon (the coconut thing, here a congolais), in the American sense, when it is in fact a sort of airy puff-pastry sandwich with filling in the middle.  That description does not do justice to their scrumptousness. 



Today, I made this French delicacy with my host sister, Sybille.  She may have done most of the prep work, but I glued a lot of these things together.  Brown = chocolate. Yellow = lemon.


Sugar and spice,
Maria

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