Description
Description
All-natural blackcurrant extract. Fans of blackcurrant will love these candies.
Each candy contains an aniseed in its center, which we coat with fine layers of sugar and all-natural flavoring.
Packaged
in our classic 50g oval tins. Each tin represents a part of a love
story between a shepherd and his beloved shepherdess.
Near the
fountain, the young shepherd makes his move, daring to ask for the
shepherdess’ hand by offering her a succulent sweet – Anis de Flavigny!
Hard candy: do not bite.
Ingredients:
Sugar, Natrual Flavorings, Green Aniseed.
This
candy, consisting of a grain of aniseed coated in sugar, is perhaps the
oldest in France, mentioned in a document as early as 872. In the 17th
century, when the candy was manufactured by Ursuline sisters, six months
were needed to add and dry the successive coats of sugar. Today, the
factory is still situated at the heart of the ancient abbey, but the
process is completed in only 15 days.
The Story of Flavigny, the World’s Oldest Confection
The
Anis de l’Abbaye de Flavigny is little, round, white and no bigger than
a pea. This time-tested candy hides in its heart both the anise
seed…. and a very old, old story that unfolded in the picturesque
hills of Burgundy, France so many centuries ago.
Rome invaded
Gaul in 50 BC. The Roman legions brought with them the anise plant,
originally grown in the Mediterranean region, as a healing herb for
their wounded soldiers. When the war ended 2 years later, the Roman
general Flavinius built a villa in what later became the village of
Flavigny (Fla-vin-ee).
In 718 AD, the Abbey was founded in
Flavigny. It is said but not documented that in 873 a monk offered 3
pounds of aniseed candy to Pope Jean VIII when he came to consecrate the
Abbey.
Archives do document that Flavigny’s anise candy existed
since at least medieval times. This cherished candy of kings and queens
has endured with uniquely natural flavors over a tiny aniseed, an
altogether pleasing surprise! King Henry IV(1553-1610) and
Shakespeare(1564-1616) may themselves have savored this delicious sweet!
Following
the French Revolution in 1759, the monks left the Abbey. Some villagers
took to making their own anise candy. By the 18th century, families
manufacturing the candy unified and established themselves inside the
ancient Abbey. First the family Mongenet, followed by the family
Galimard, and since 1923, the family Troubat.
In 1992, the French
government distinguished the ancient Abbey de Flavigny by naming it as
one of France’s 100 remarkable taste sites. Others include St. Emilion,
Cognac, and Cointreau. Flavigny has been honored for its story, quality,
and because the candy is still made in the ancient Abbey.
Today, over 30% of the production of the Abbey is exported to 13 countries.
Flavigny may be the only real taste of medieval times you can truly savor.
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