Marron Glacé FAQ: 14 Most Burning Questions Answered

Yummy Bazaar is continuing the article series about the most frequently asked questions about gourmet foods and traditional ingredients. This time we’ll be answering the most searched questions about Marron Glace, the famous luxury French confectionery made with chestnuts. What is Marron Glace? To put it simply, Marron Glace is a type of candied and glazed chestnut. It originated in northern Italy and southern France and took a particularly distinguished place among candied chestnut confections due to a particularly intrinsic, complicated, and time-consuming preparation process. To make Marron Glace, a chestnut must be fully saturated with syrup down to the very core. It may sound easy, but it requires following a very precise process: the chestnuts must first be cooked to a specific texture (not too hard, not too soft) and then candied for a week, if not longer. The
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