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Speaker 1: Welcome to Brainstuff from how stuff marks dot com, where

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Speaker 1: smart happens. Marshmallows are a confection a candy. They've been

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Speaker 1: around in the form we know them today since the

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Speaker 1: mid eighteen hundreds. They're called marshmallows because the early recipe

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Speaker 1: called for sap from the root of a marshmallow plant.

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Speaker 1: According to Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a marshmallow is either

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Speaker 1: one a pink flowered European perennial herb of the mallow

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Speaker 1: family that is naturalized in the Eastern United States and

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Speaker 1: has a musilanginus roots, sometimes used in confectionery and in medicine,

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Speaker 1: or to a confection made from the root of the marshmallow,

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Speaker 1: or from corn syrup, sugar, albumen, and gelatin beaten into

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Speaker 1: a light, spongy consistency. That word mucilaginous means jelly like.

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Speaker 1: Later the roots step was replaced by gelatine, and that's

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Speaker 1: how modern marshmallows are made today. For more on this

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