Editing Macaroon (section)

==Origins==
Macaroons can be traced to a French [[monastery]] of the 8th century in the city of [[Cormery]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thegoodlifefrance.com/cormery-macarons-loire-valley-speciality/ | title=Cormery Macarons, Loire Valley speciality - The Good Life France |website=thegoodlifefrance.com | date=2021-07-26}}</ref> Later, two Benedictine nuns, Sister Marguerite and Sister Marie-Elisabeth, came to [[Nancy, France]] seeking asylum during the [[French Revolution]]. The two women paid for their housing by baking and selling macaroons, and thus became known as the "Macaroon Sisters".<ref name=history>{{Cite news | url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-jewish-history-of-macaroons/ | title=The Jewish History of Macaroons | first=Joanna | last=O'Leary | work=[[70 Faces Media]] | date=March 23, 2021}}</ref>

Macaroons became a popular treat for [[Jews]] on [[Passover]] because they had no flour or leavening, as macaroons are leavened by egg whites.<ref name=place>{{Cite news | url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coconut-macaroons-passover | title=How Coconut Macaroons Earned a Place on the Passover Table | first=Sam | last=Lin-Sommer | work=[[Atlas Obscura]] | date=April 15, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://tylerpaper.com/arena/parade/toasted-coconut-macaroons-are-the-passover-treat-everyone-loves/article_be27afaf-601b-5663-978d-4c7eccc715f7.html | title=Toasted Coconut Macaroons Are the Passover Treat Everyone Loves | work=[[Tyler Morning Telegraph]]}}</ref>

Recipes for macaroons appeared in recipe books at least as early as 1725 (Robert Smith's ''Court Cookery, or the Complete English Cook''), and use [[Egg (food)|egg]] whites and [[almond paste]].<ref name=history/> ''[[Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management]]'' (1861) includes a typical traditional recipe.<ref>{{cite book |first=Isabella |last=Beeton |title=The Book of Household Management |url=https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/beeton/isabella/household/chapter35.html |chapter=XXXV: Recipes |publisher=[[University of Adelaide]] |date=17 December 2014 |access-date=4 January 2010 |archive-date=28 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128154446/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/beeton/isabella/household/chapter35.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=history/> Over time, [[coconut]] was added to the ground almonds and, in certain recipes, replaced them. [[Potato starch]] is sometimes included in the recipe to give the macaroons more body.<ref name=history/>