'Elena' Gift Box

Medium Gift Box with Prato Biscuits and Mantovana Easter Cake

• Description

  The "Elena" gift box offers a proposal of some Biscottificio Mattei products.
  Contains Prato Biscuits and a Mantovana Easter Cake.
  
  Prato Biscuits are prepared with flour, sugar, free-range eggs, almonds and pine nuts, they do not contain preservatives, animal fats or vegetable fats.
  
  The Mantovana is a soft and fragrant cake made with butter, fresh free-range eggs, flour and sugar, covered with chopped almonds. It does not contain yeast.
  Just like a homemade cake, it is best enjoyed within the first few days of being made and in any case within the recommended dates.
  In this case the dough is poured into a dove-shaped mould and sold exclusively in the days preceding Easter.

• History

  Prato Biscuits - also commonly known as almond cantucci or cantuccini - are part of the Tuscany confectionery tradition and are perfect after a meal paired with Vinsanto.
  
  Since 1858, our biscuits have been baked daily and packaged by hand one by one, in the classic Blu Mattei bag.
  
  In 1875 two nuns from Mantua, during a pilgrimage to Rome, were hosted by Antonio Mattei: to thank him for the hospitality, they gifted him the recipe for this cake which takes its name from their city.
  Antonio Mattei made his own version of this recipe, the one still on sale in our stores, and also celebrated by Pellegrino Artusi in his famous 1891 book 'Science in the kitchen with the art of eating well'.

• Sizes
  Width

  23 cm

  Height

  23 cm

  Depth

  19 cm
• Notes

  Weight 2 kg with external shipping packaging.
  Fresh biscuits, without preservatives, like the homemade ones; we recommend you to enjoy them within 12 days from production, the date is printed on the label.