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	'''Marshmallow creme''' is a uniquely ] food item. It is a very sweet, spreadable, ]-like confection and is popular amongst young children. Marshmallow Fluff and ] are the fillings of a sandwich, the ].
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			'''Marshmallow creme''' (also called '''marshmallow fluff''', '''marshmallow stuff''', '''marshmallow spread''', '''marshmallow paste''', or simply '''fluff''') is a ] ] ] similar in flavor, but not texture, to regular solid marshmallow. One brand of marshmallow creme is '''Marshmallow Fluff''', which is used to make the ], a New England classic ] which debuted in 1918 in Massachusetts, just a year after marshmallow creme was invented.
	One popular brand of marshmallow creme, sold principally in the ], is '''Marshmallow Fluff''' which was originally invented by , to sell their trademark to them. John Limpert agreed, and named the price at which Limpert Bros. would sell their whole trademark. Apparently, the other company could not afford to purchase the whole trademark, which would have given them clear title to it. Instead, they suggested that for 1/5 of the price, they purchase a narrow segment of Limpert Bros.’ trademark, or the right to use their trademark, for a retail grocery consumer, in a sharply restricted use agreement - allowing the sale of Marshmallow Fluff in containers up to 1lb. In ], however, this quantity could be greater. Limpert Bros. agreed. What is implicit in this restriction is that it further defines the contractual fact that their use of Limpert Bros.’ ], Marshmallow Fluff, can only be sold to a retail grocery consumer, which is the sole right the other company bought from Limpert Bros. for 1/5, or 20% of the price of the whole trademark, Marshmallow Fluff. Limpert Bros. retains all the other rights to 80% of their Marshmallow Fluff trademark.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.limpertbrothers.com/story2.htm\|accessdate=October 13\|accessyear=2006\|title=The story of Limpert Brothers Marshmallow Fluff}}</ref>

			==History==
	Around ] in ] ] sold his version door-to-door. In 2006, Union Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, the home of Archibald Query, celebrated his original creation of Fluff with a festival titled ''What the Fluff?''<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.unionsquaremain.org/committees/Special%20Events/fluff%20alt.html \|accessdate=October 13\|accessyear=2006\|title=What the Fluff?'' festival, Somerville, Massachusetts}}</ref> that included a science fair, gallery show and cooking contest, all oriented around Marshmallow Fluff.
			Many late-19th-century "marshmallow paste" recipes produced solid foods. The earliest mention of marshmallow creme in an American cookbook is from ''Fannie Farmer's Boston School Cook Book'', printed in 1896. However, the author does not give a recipe for marshmallow cream in this book, instead giving a recipe for marshmallow paste in the cake filling section. In 1902, ''Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book'' by Sarah Tyson Rorer describes her recipe for "marshmallow filling".<ref>{{cite web \|title=Marshmallow cream/creme \|work=] \|first=Lynne \|last=Olver \|author-link=Lynne Olver \|url=http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcandy.html#marshmallowcreme}}</ref>

			In 1910, ice cream company Limpert Brothers in ], ] created a product of the same name, intended as a dessert topping. The company is sometimes credited as the inventor of Marshmallow Fluff.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Marko \|first=Deborah M. \|title=History up for sale at Limpert Bros. liquidation auction set for Saturday \|url=https://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/2019/12/11/history-up-sale-limpert-bros-liquidation-auction/4390993002/ \|access-date=2024-09-18 \|website=The Daily Journal \|language=en-US}}</ref>
	According to a recent '']'' article, Massachusetts State Senator ] was proposing a restriction on the number of weekly servings of Marshmallow Fluff (Fluffernutter) sandwiches in the form of an amendment to a bill that will limit junk food in schools. He later dropped the proposal due to ridicule about it.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=145813\|accessdate=July 8\|accessyear=2006\|title=BostonHerald.com - Local / Regional News: Massachusetts lawmaker drops opposition to Fluff}}</ref>

			Around the beginning of the 20th century, ], resident and inventor of the product<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/10/01/at_fluff_inspired_festival_sweet_teeth_come_out_to_play/\|access-date=July 19, 2008\|title=At Fluff-inspired festival, sweet teeth come out to play (Boston Globe)\|work=The Boston Globe\|date=October 1, 2006\|first=Tracy\|last=Jan}}</ref> ] started selling his version door-to-door. He soon afterward sold the recipe to two candy makers in ], H. Allen Durkee and Fred Mower, for $500.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://patch.com/massachusetts/swampscott/swampscott-fluff\|access-date=June 29, 2024\|title=Swampscott's Sweet Past (Swampscott Patch)\|work=The Swampscott Patch\|date=April 4, 2012\|first=Terry\|last=Date}}</ref> The product first hit market shelves in cans as Toot Sweet Marshmallow Fluff in 1917. The first two words were dropped soon after the packaging changed to a glass jar in the 1940s. Today, the Durkee-Mower company is one of only three companies in ] to produce marshmallow creme, the other products being ] ] and ] Marshmallow Creme. Fluff's ingredients include ], ], ], and ]s.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Ryan \|first1=Andrew \|title=Fluff's quiet owner reveals secrets of family's success \|url=https://www.telegram.com/story/news/state/2006/06/23/fluff-s-quiet-owner-reveals/53084590007/ \|access-date=17 June 2022 \|work=telegram.com \|agency=Associated Press \|publisher=New York Times Company \|date=23 June 2006 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617180951/https://www.telegram.com/story/news/state/2006/06/23/fluff-s-quiet-owner-reveals/53084590007/ \|archive-date=17 June 2022 \|location=Massachusetts}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.marshmallowfluff.com/history-of-marshmallow-fluff/\|title=History of Marshmallow Fluff\|work=MarshmallowFluff.com\|access-date=2018-01-19\|publisher=Durkee Mower Company\|language=en-US\|archive-date=2019-02-28\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228210903/https://marshmallowfluff.com/history-of-marshmallow-fluff/\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
	State Representative ] plans to file a bill that would make the Fluffernutter the official sandwich of Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/06/20/fluff_fans_fight_back_at_statehouse/\|accessdate=July 8\|accessyear=2006\|title=Fluff fans fight back at Statehouse - Boston.com}}</ref>
		⚫	\|url=https://www.marshmallowfluff.com/faq/
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			\|quote=Marshmallow Fluff contains Corn Syrup, Sugar Syrup, Dried Egg Whites and Vanillin. Strawberry Fluff contains Corn Syrup, Sugar Syrup, Dried Egg Whites, Artificial Flavor, Vegetable Juice Color. There are no artificial preservatives, stabilizers or emulsifiers in any of our products.
			\|title="Flufferently" Asked Questions
			\|archive-date=April 18, 2017
			\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418084332/https://www.marshmallowfluff.com/faq/
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			Fluff continues to be a regional tradition in the ]. Since at least 2006, the city of Somerville has celebrated Query's original creation of Fluff with an annual festival in ] titled What the Fluff?.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.flufffestival.com/ \|access-date=May 20, 2017\|title=What the Fluff? festival, Somerville, Massachusetts}}</ref> Typical activities at the festival have included Fluff-themed science fairs, a marshmallow launching robot from ]'s FIRST Robotics team with their s'morebot, gallery shows, cooking contests, and carnival games. In 2011, actress ], most famous for portraying Cindy Brady on the '']'', attended the festival, where she sold her Fluff-inspired art.<ref>{{cite web\|title="Brady Bunch" Star Susan Olsen Brings Her Love of Fluff to Somerville\|url=http://unionsquaremain.org/2011/08/brady-bunch-star-susan-olsen-brings-her-love-of-fluff-to-somerville/\|work=blog posting\|publisher=Union Square Main Streets\|access-date=30 November 2011\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202120243/http://unionsquaremain.org/2011/08/brady-bunch-star-susan-olsen-brings-her-love-of-fluff-to-somerville/\|archive-date=2 December 2011\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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	== ~~References~~ ==		==Uses==
⚫	*''The Marshmallow Fluff Cookbook: More than 110 Real Recipes for Serious Fluffernuts'' with Justin Schwartz, Philadelphia: Running Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7624-1833-8.

			One popular use for marshmallow creme is in the "]", a Fluff and peanut butter sandwich. In 2006, State Representative ] planned to file a bill that would make the fluffernutter the official sandwich of Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite news \|date=June 20, 2006 \|title=Fluff fans fight back at Statehouse \|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/06/20/fluff_fans_fight_back_at_statehouse/ \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012092100/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/06/20/fluff_fans_fight_back_at_statehouse/ \|archive-date=October 12, 2008 \|access-date=July 8, 2006 \|work=Boston Globe}}</ref>
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			Marshmallow creme is also a traditional confection in Arabic cuisine, where it is commonly referred to as soapwort meringue ({{lang\|ar-Latn\|natef}}).<ref>{{cite web\|title=Soapwort meringue (Natef)\|url=http://www.tasteofbeirut.com/soapwort-meringue-natef/\|website=Taste of Beirut\|access-date=5 October 2017\|date=23 April 2012}}</ref> The original recipe is based on soapwort (roots of '']'')<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Karabij Halab And Natef Authentic Recipe {{!}} TasteAtlas \|url=https://www.tasteatlas.com/maamoul/recipe/karabij-halab-and-natef \|access-date=2024-11-06 \|website=www.tasteatlas.com \|language=en}}</ref> or roots of the ], but modern commercial varieties are nearly identical to marshmallow creme manufactured in North America. It was mentioned in a tenth-century Arabic cookbook, ''Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ'' (''The Book of Dishes'') by ].<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq \|first=al-Muẓaffar ibn Naṣr \|title=Annals of the caliph's kitchen: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's tenth-century Baghdadi cookbook English translation with introduction and glossary \|last2=Nasrallah \|first2=Nawal \|last3=Muruwwa \|first3=Sahban Ahmad \|last4=Öhrnberg \|first4=Kaj \|date=2007 \|publisher=Brill \|isbn=978-90-04-15867-2 \|series=Islamic history and civilization \|location=Leyden \|pages=428-432 \|language=en}}</ref>

			== Health ==
			According to a 2006 '']'' article, ] State Senator ] proposed a restriction on the number of weekly servings of fluffernutter sandwiches in the form of an amendment to a bill that would limit ] in schools. Attention on this issue was widespread, with news outlets as far as California reporting on the controversy.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Mehren \|first=Elizabeth \|date=2006-06-26 \|title=Marshmallow Fluff Is the Stuff Legislation Is Made Of \|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-26-na-fluff26-story.html \|access-date=2024-09-18 \|website=Los Angeles Times \|language=en-US}}</ref> The proposal was later dropped.

			==See also==
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			==References==
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			==Further reading==
		⚫	* ''The Marshmallow Fluff Cookbook: More than 110 Real Recipes for Serious Fluffernuts'' with Justin Schwartz, Philadelphia: Running Press, 2004. {{ISBN\|0-7624-1833-8}}.
			* {{cite book\|title=Fluff: The Sticky Sweet Story of an American Icon\|author=Mimi Graney\|publisher=Union Park Press\|year=2017\|isbn=978-1934598191}}

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Confectionery spread made from marshmallow

Marshmallow creme

Type	Confectionery
Place of origin	United States
Region or state	Massachusetts
Main ingredients	corn syrup, sugar syrup, vanilla flavor, and egg white

Marshmallow creme (also called marshmallow fluff, marshmallow stuff, marshmallow spread, marshmallow paste, or simply fluff) is a marshmallow confectionery spread similar in flavor, but not texture, to regular solid marshmallow. One brand of marshmallow creme is Marshmallow Fluff, which is used to make the fluffernutter sandwich, a New England classic comfort food which debuted in 1918 in Massachusetts, just a year after marshmallow creme was invented.

History

Many late-19th-century "marshmallow paste" recipes produced solid foods. The earliest mention of marshmallow creme in an American cookbook is from Fannie Farmer's Boston School Cook Book, printed in 1896. However, the author does not give a recipe for marshmallow cream in this book, instead giving a recipe for marshmallow paste in the cake filling section. In 1902, Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book by Sarah Tyson Rorer describes her recipe for "marshmallow filling".

In 1910, ice cream company Limpert Brothers in Vineland, New Jersey created a product of the same name, intended as a dessert topping. The company is sometimes credited as the inventor of Marshmallow Fluff.

Around the beginning of the 20th century, Somerville, Massachusetts, resident and inventor of the product Archibald Query started selling his version door-to-door. He soon afterward sold the recipe to two candy makers in Swampscott, Massachusetts, H. Allen Durkee and Fred Mower, for $500. The product first hit market shelves in cans as Toot Sweet Marshmallow Fluff in 1917. The first two words were dropped soon after the packaging changed to a glass jar in the 1940s. Today, the Durkee-Mower company is one of only three companies in North America to produce marshmallow creme, the other products being Kraft Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Creme and Solo Marshmallow Creme. Fluff's ingredients include corn syrup, sugar syrup, vanilla flavor, and egg whites.

Fluff continues to be a regional tradition in the Northeastern United States. Since at least 2006, the city of Somerville has celebrated Query's original creation of Fluff with an annual festival in Union Square titled What the Fluff?. Typical activities at the festival have included Fluff-themed science fairs, a marshmallow launching robot from Somerville High School's FIRST Robotics team with their s'morebot, gallery shows, cooking contests, and carnival games. In 2011, actress Susan Olsen, most famous for portraying Cindy Brady on the Brady Bunch, attended the festival, where she sold her Fluff-inspired art.

Uses

One popular use for marshmallow creme is in the "fluffernutter", a Fluff and peanut butter sandwich. In 2006, State Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein planned to file a bill that would make the fluffernutter the official sandwich of Massachusetts.

Marshmallow creme is also a traditional confection in Arabic cuisine, where it is commonly referred to as soapwort meringue (natef). The original recipe is based on soapwort (roots of Saponaria officinalis) or roots of the marshmallow plant, but modern commercial varieties are nearly identical to marshmallow creme manufactured in North America. It was mentioned in a tenth-century Arabic cookbook, Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ (The Book of Dishes) by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq.

Health

According to a 2006 Boston Globe article, Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios proposed a restriction on the number of weekly servings of fluffernutter sandwiches in the form of an amendment to a bill that would limit junk food in schools. Attention on this issue was widespread, with news outlets as far as California reporting on the controversy. The proposal was later dropped.

References

Olver, Lynne. "Marshmallow cream/creme". The Food Timeline.
Marko, Deborah M. "History up for sale at Limpert Bros. liquidation auction set for Saturday". The Daily Journal. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
Jan, Tracy (October 1, 2006). "At Fluff-inspired festival, sweet teeth come out to play (Boston Globe)". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 19, 2008.
Date, Terry (April 4, 2012). "Swampscott's Sweet Past (Swampscott Patch)". The Swampscott Patch. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
Ryan, Andrew (June 23, 2006). "Fluff's quiet owner reveals secrets of family's success". telegram.com. Massachusetts: New York Times Company. Associated Press. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
"History of Marshmallow Fluff". MarshmallowFluff.com. Durkee Mower Company. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
""Flufferently" Asked Questions". Durkee Mower, Inc. 2016. Archived from the original on April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017. Marshmallow Fluff contains Corn Syrup, Sugar Syrup, Dried Egg Whites and Vanillin. Strawberry Fluff contains Corn Syrup, Sugar Syrup, Dried Egg Whites, Artificial Flavor, Vegetable Juice Color. There are no artificial preservatives, stabilizers or emulsifiers in any of our products.
"What the Fluff? festival, Somerville, Massachusetts". Retrieved May 20, 2017.
""Brady Bunch" Star Susan Olsen Brings Her Love of Fluff to Somerville". blog posting. Union Square Main Streets. Archived from the original on December 2, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
"Fluff fans fight back at Statehouse". Boston Globe. June 20, 2006. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2006.
"Soapwort meringue (Natef)". Taste of Beirut. April 23, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
"Karabij Halab And Natef Authentic Recipe | TasteAtlas". www.tasteatlas.com. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq, al-Muẓaffar ibn Naṣr; Nasrallah, Nawal; Muruwwa, Sahban Ahmad; Öhrnberg, Kaj (2007). Annals of the caliph's kitchen: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's tenth-century Baghdadi cookbook English translation with introduction and glossary. Islamic history and civilization. Leyden: Brill. pp. 428–432. ISBN 978-90-04-15867-2.
Mehren, Elizabeth (June 26, 2006). "Marshmallow Fluff Is the Stuff Legislation Is Made Of". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 18, 2024.

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