the.com/macaroon
the cheap chewy cousin everyone confuses with its fancy French twin, the macaron
means A small sweet cookie, typically made from ground almonds or shredded coconut bound with egg whites and sugar, baked until chewy.
from From French 'macaron,' which came from the Italian 'maccarone' (or 'maccherone'), the same word that gave us macaroni — both tracing back to a notion of a fine paste or dough, possibly linked to Greek 'makaria,' a kind of barley broth or food. The double 'o' spelling is the English adaptation; the French kept their single-vowel 'macaron' for the daintier confection, which is exactly why the two get endlessly tangled.
- one letter
- a single 'o' separates it from the macaron
- core ingredient
- shredded coconut piled into rough little mounds
- passover star
- flourless, so it's a Jewish holiday staple
- older sibling
- predates the colorful macaron by centuries
- easy bake
- basically coconut, egg whites, sugar, done