Brigidini of Lamporecchio - Artisanal Specialty - Sold with Food Box

You can buy this product with the Food Box Dolce Sipario - Deluxe => DISCOVER

Attending a fair in Tuscany without buying a bag of Brigidini would be like going to Rome and not seeing the Colosseum.

Adults are inebriated by their sweet scent, while children are delighted to see the machine that produces them.

Following the tradition these delicious yellow-orange wafers with the unmistakable taste of anise were prepared in a convent of nuns devoted to Santa Brigida, a Swedish religious and mystic.

These women of faith, known precisely as "brigidine", were involved in the preparation of the hosts for Holy Communion, which they made using red-hot irons with which they cooked the dough of flour intended for the Holy Mass.

From here on, tradition is confused with legend. We do not know if the Brigidini recipe was created deliberately or by chance, perhaps due to an involuntary distraction by a novice or with the intention of making a new dessert.

Whatever happened, it is useless to deny that these crumbly and tasty aniseed sweets are reminiscent of hosts in their own shape.

A success that continues today, keeping alive the tradition of the brigidino that the famous gastronome Pellegrino Artusi called a dessert or rather a special treat of Tuscany.

Recommended Combinations

These crumbly and special Brigidini go hand in hand with a good passito to end the evening in total sweetness.