Torronificio Geraci snc

Description

The history of Torronificio Geraci can be considered emblematic of the broader history of family-run companies. In 1870 Michele Geraci, an apprentice in a renowned pastry shop in Caltanissetta, decided to set up his own business and set up his business. It is the story of the garzonato, from which new productive activities often develop and through which the most characteristic confectionery traditions of a territory are maintained. Thus was born the Torronificio Geraci.

Products


Lamb

Lamb

The Lambs are made of royal paste (almond marzipan) with icing, to remember the soft mantle of the Lamb, they take the form of the symbol of Easter, the Lamb, and enhance the almond, the undisputed queen of the typical raw materials. of the Mediterranean world. The classic decoration is the "veiled", that is, dark sugar that covers the whole Lamb, except for the head and neck.

Buccellato

Buccellato

The Sicilian Buccellato is a shortcrust pastry dough, rolled out in a not thin sheet and stuffed with a filling of dried figs, raisins, almonds, orange peels or other ingredients that vary depending on the areas in which it is prepared, then closed and shaped like a donut. The more traditional fig filling is instead made up of a mixture of dried figs, candied fruit and pieces of chocolate. Baked in the oven, buccellato can be preserved for a long time.

Martorana fruit

Martorana fruit

Simple dessert in the ingredients (it is the almond that plays the role of absolute protagonist), very accurate in the preparation (the fruits are made by hand, and colored, by hand, so as to look like real fruit) which plays the important role of keeping alive , in the little ones, the memory of those who are no longer there.

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