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Because they are marshmellow-y. :) The traditional recipe used an extract from the mucilaginous root of the marshmallow plant. -(from Wikkipedia, an extremely reliable source)
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Marshmallow candy dates back to ancient Egypt where it was a honey-based candy flavored and thickened with the sap of the root of the Marsh-Mallow plant (althea officinalis). Marsh-Mallow grows in salt marshes and on banks near large bodies of water. It is common in the eastern United States. Until the mid 1800's, marshmallow candy was made using the sap of the Marsh-Mallow plant. Gelatin replaces the sap in the modern recipes. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/food/candy/peeps/section-12.html
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A "Marshmallow" is a plant. and originally Marshmellows were made using root sap from this plant. it has now been substituted by gelatin
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Marshmallow is a kind a mallow plant - in latin "Althea officinalis" which grows near salt marshes. When the confectionary was originally produced (1884) it was made from the mashed roots of the marshmallow plant. Hence the name.
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