Frangipane

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Frangipane is a filling made from or flavored like almonds. This filling can be used in a variety of ways including cakes, tarts and other assorted pastries. An alternative French spelling from a 1674 cookbook is franchipane with the earliest modern spelling coming from a 1732 confectioners' dictionary. Originally designated as a custard tart flavored by almonds or pistachios it came later to designate a filling that could be used in a variety of confections and baked goods.

In some anecdotes this is a kind of sweet a noblewoman Jacopa da Settesoli brought to St. Francis of Assisi, when he was dying in 1226.^[1]

[edit] Etymology

Frangipane/frangipani is derived from frangere il pane (Italian for "break the bread"), from which the noble Frangipani family of Rome derived their name in the 11th century. A certain Frangipane was perfumer to Louis XIII of France, hence the common name of the flowering tropical trees that are actually in the genus Plumeria

[edit] Other uses

Frangipane can also refer to:

• A Belgian almond pastry tart.

  Usually the individual cakes have a striped pattern on top, occasionally with icing (looks a little like a hot cross bun from above).

• The frangipane (frangipani, Plumeria) tree as in John Vanderslice's song Kookaburra

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