Thin Wafer Cookies, Gluten Free , Brigidini , 7 oz

Gluten-free Brigidini di Lamporecchio , from the Rinati brand, are thin wafers from the ancient Tuscan tradition that come from a medieval recipe. Crispy, with a delicate anise scent, they are a genuine and tasty product. Specially made for people with celiac disease , they are rice-based and also ideal for those who are gluten intolerant. Without preservatives and colorings, they are perfect with ice cream, cream and vinsanto, to garnish desserts and as a light and tasty snack during the day.

INGREDIENTS

Sugar, rice flour, eggs, flavourings. Gluten free. May contain traces of soy. The highlighted ingredients may cause reactions in allergic and intolerant people. It contains no dyes or preservatives.

THE BRIGIDINI

Those sweet, crunchy and very light pastries, with a particular aniseed flavor and a golden color which, together with nougat, brittle and other sweets, take us back in time, to the time when people celebrated at fairs, markets and festivals villagers. Brigidino is a specialty of Lamporecchio, an area full of charm and popular traditions. It all began with Saint Brigida.The story, veiled in legend, tells that around 1300, a nun from Sweden, returning from a long pilgrimage, stopped in Montalbano, finding it a land of refreshment and suggestions. Here she founded the convent of the same name of the Brigidine order where they began to produce a delight called "Brigidino" in the form of the consecrated host, using the simple ingredients they had available such as sugar, flour, eggs and anicini; ingredients that are still found today in modern production. Over the centuries, the small town of Lamporecchio has been able to maintain the memory of this dessert unchanged, transmitted to the Rinati family at the beginning of the 1900s and which still today preserves, from generation to generation, the tradition of this crunchy and fragrant wafer which has become,