Foods A-Z - M is for Macaroon
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (158794)
United States
May 19, 2020 2:20pm CST
A macaroon is a small cookie or cake usually made from ground almonds or coconut.
In America the best known variety is the coconut macaroon. When commercially made they are normally dense, moist and sweet. When homemade they are usually light and fluffy.
Macaroons can be traced back to an Italian monastery in the 8th or 9th century. Recipes appeared in cookbooks as early as 1725 and used egg whites and almond paste as the main ingredients.
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@LindaOHio (158794)
• United States
19 May 20
Then I must be the second, because I hate them.
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. We must be the only two who hate them.
@LindaOHio (158794)
• United States
19 May 20
@DianneN Brilliant minds think (and taste) alike!
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@Hannihar (129686)
• Israel
15 Jun 20
@LindaOHio
I grew up on the coconut macaroons. We have them at our Jewish holiday of Passover. I get them and also found chocolate covered coconut ones. The chocolate covered ones tastes like mound bars.
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@Hannihar (129686)
• Israel
17 Jun 20
@LindaOHio
Those macaroons taste like them and they are very good. I look for them all the time at our holiday of Passover and get the regular macaroons too and they are also tasty.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
15 Nov 20
I love macaroons. The picture you have is a macaron quite a delicious but different cookie.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
16 Nov 20
@LindaOHio Yes a macaron is made with meringue and they are much harder to make than our coconut delicious macaroons
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
19 May 20
I have not had any for awhile. I can take or leave them.
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@LindaOHio (158794)
• United States
19 May 20
That makes 3 of us. You, DianneN and me.
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@cmoneyspinner (9221)
• Austin, Texas
18 Jun 20
I did research and evidently people say there are macarons and macaroons. I like both of them!
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