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Wedding favours have been essential elements of the wedding ceremony for centuries. Today, favours are part of the wedding tradition. The sugared coating combined with the sweet freshness of an almond delight guests, family and friends on your wedding day. As symbol of happiness and prosperity, favours are an essential complement to your wedding, a souvenir, a mark of attention, a moment of emotion at the same time a symbol of refinement and elegance.
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Wedding favours come from the Greek meaning tragêma that means treat. In Roman times, a confectioner from the Fabius family invented this delicacy for a christening. Wedding favours are said to be the diagragum’s ancestor, a confectionary made in the Middle Ages from the sap of a tree in Asia. The recipe was founded in the XIIth century. An apothecary, back from the crusades, had the clever idea to melt the sugar to coat almonds. We know that these high-quality sugared almonds were tasted by court of Louis XIV. Later, the Medicis family introduced favours in the major European courts. |
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Traditional wedding favours are delicately coated with a thin layer of sugar, which is carefully smoothed. The quality of coated depends on the choice of the almonds and the fine layer of sugar over it. Typically, it takes ten days to make a sugared almond. There are a wide variety of all colours and qualities, and hence, a wedding favour for every taste and every budget (allow 15 to 30 euros per kilo of sweets to fill your wedding favours). Do not venture below these prices... or your guests might break your teeth on your favours as the layer of sugar is so thick! Not all favours are filled with almonds. Besides the classic sugared almonds, you can fill your wedding favours the special coated roasted almonds, chocolate or fruit dragees or chocolate olives. |
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To impress your wedding guests with your favours, you can choose to fill them with a wide variety of sugared almonds, from Sicily and Spain.
* The Avola, elongated and flat, which grow on the sunny hillsides of Sicily, are very fruity and keep well. These are the rarest and most requested filling for wedding favours. The Imperial Avola, is the finest filling for your favours. The little Avola called “Avolina” is less sugar coated.
* The Planetas, produced in Spain, near Alicante, fatter than the previous, shorter form can be kept lower. These almonds have exquisite taste and offer a good value for money, making the ideal for filling your favours.
* The Longuet, originating in Catalonia, is elegant and keeps well, making them a good wedding favour filler. Their flavour is less intense.
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