Typical Palermo Reginella biscuits - Daily production - 500 gr

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Typical Palermo Reginella biscuits, fresh products of the day according to the traditional Palermo recipe. An oval cylinder of shortcrust pastry immersed in sesame, simple and artisanal, fragrant like fresh bread but sweet, because it is a biscuit, is one of the typical Palermo products that every pastry shop and bakery offers to anyone passing through the streets of the city. Ideal as a snack after lunch or dinner together with coffee, excellent in the morning for breakfast dipped in caffe latte, or even in the afternoon alone or with a drop of liqueur after a hearty dinner, they are among the biscuits most loved by adults and children.

The history of these delicious biscuits seems to date back to 1800, during the reign of the two Sicilies, when Queen Carolina of Habsburg, wife of Ferdinand IV of Naples and III of Sicily, used to go to the nuns' monasteries in Palermo to taste the delicacies that they used to prepare. Bringing a large number of servants with them, the nuns often found it difficult to satisfy the palates of a large number of people, so they invented a simple but tasty recipe, namely shortcrust biscuits dipped in sesame, to be offered in abundance and with a reduced cost such as processing, to all the visiting servants. The queen was enthusiastic about it and since then this biscuit took the name "Reginella".

Produced by the Graziano laboratory in Palermo.