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    This particular noble patrician family name is connected with the flavouring of personal garments which subsequently attributed to one of the common names for a sub-tropical plant. What is it, and how, by changing the last letter, does it then revert to a dessert?

    Question #74568. Asked by peasypod. (Jan 15 07 4:02 PM)


    lanfranco

    		"Frangipani" should answer this one. An aristocratic medieval family (with a so-so chapel by Taddeo Zuccari in San Marcello al Corso in Rome but an interesting and bellicose history), the name is also given to a sub-tropical shrub after a perfume that was used for scenting gloves during the Renaissance. "Frangipane" is an almond filling for desserts:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangipani_family

    Jan 15 07, 5:48 PM
    peasypod

    		Absolutely Frankie. A berry and almond tart I made conjured up the initiative for this one, and quite interesting about the bread-breakers, eh?

    Jan 15 07, 6:59 PM

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