'Ada Maria' gift box

Little hatbox with Prato Biscuits, Mantovana Cake and Organic Honey

• Description

  The small hatbox 'Ada Maria' offers a delicious and versatile combination: the Biscotto di Prato (also called 'Cantuccio' or 'Cantuccino' with Almonds), our Mantovana Cake - one of our specialties - and a jar of Organic Honey from the Apisticamente Farm in Montepiano.
  Contains a 8.8 oz packet of Prato Biscuits and a Small Mantovana Cake - 4/6 servings, and a 8.8 oz jar of Honey.
  
  Prato Biscuits are prepared with 5 simple ingredients: flour, sugar, free-range eggs, almonds and pine nuts, they do not contain preservatives, animal fats or vegetable fats.
  
  A soft and fragrant cake made with butter, 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 it being made and in any case within the recommended dates.
  
  The Organic Honey has a dark amber color, with reddish-greenish tones in liquid honey; when crystallized, it takes on a brown color.
  Both the smell and the aroma are intense, it is not very sweet, bitter, very persistent, fragrance of wood and tannin.

• History

  Since 1858, Prato Biscuits have been baked daily and hand-packed one by one, in the classic Blu Mattei bag.
  
  In fact, in June 2019, the Biscottificio Mattei Blu bags were officially registered and trademarked as a Unique Color; an important and rare award that definitively gives this historic packaging its uniqueness and belonging to the historic biscuit factory.
  Now all our Biscuits are packaged with the Blu Mattei bag, with elements of different colors that distinguish the different flavors.
  
  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'.
  
  The Apisticamente Agricultural Company was established in February 2012 from the desire of its partners to transform a passion into a full-time business.
  The choice of certifying the beekeeping activity was mandatory so to speak, first of all because we share the principles of organic management for apiaries, for this reason we can raise our bees in the healthiest way possible, and secondly because we want to offer our customers quality products.

• Sizes
  Diameter

  20 cm

  Height

  13 cm
• Notes

  Weight 56.4 oz with external shipping packaging.