Jordan Almond Flowers

Jordan Almond Flowers are not just for weddings anymore, in fact they are Great for Baby Showers, Birthdays, Anniversary, Sweet Sixteen Parties.

The tradtional 5 wishes are for children, money, happiness, health, and long life. We all want those things for our children young and old.

In their most classic form they are exactly the candies known as sugared almonds, "Jordan Almonds" or dragees. The generic name "confetti" has nothing to do with the French and English word "confetti", bits of colored paper, translated into Italian as "coriandoli".

For the origin of confetti we must look back to the ancient Romans, who celebrated births and marriages with the distant ancestors of today's confetti. But until the renaissance they - and other sweets - were made with honey. The introduction of sugarcane into European kitchens in the XVth century marked the beginning of the modern era for confetti. In the renaissance, as in antiquity, confetti was not just for ceremonial use. They were real sweetmeats made of candied fruits, almonds, dried fruits, aromatic seeds, hazelnuts, pine nuts or cinnamon, covered with a hard coating of sugar. And they were habitually served not only at wedding banquets but also at many important meals.

We find the first literary attestation of confetti in Boccaccio's Decameron in the 1350's. The earliest testimonies of the high status and near-ritual use of confetti come from the late middle age and Renaissance. In 1487, according to chronicles of the period, more than two hundred and sixty pounds of confetti were consumed at the banquet held the day after the wedding of Lucrezia Borgi and Alfonso D'Este. Son of Ercole I, Duke of Ferrara.

The use of confetti really began to spread through Italy during the late XVIIIth and early XIXth centuries, along with the first "modern" confetti factories appearing in the Abruzzo region, which has became the famous confetti capital for three centuries: in 1783 it became the acknowledged capital of confetti thanks to the skill of a single family which manufactures confetti according to a simple recipe that has remained unchanged.

Colors and meanings:

White for weddings

Silver for twenty-fifth anniversaries

Sky-Blue or Pink for christenings

Red for graduations

Green for engagements

 These are just a few of the myriad colors of Italian confetti, also known in the "new world" as Jordan Almonds, which are those little sugar-coated candies present at every important occasion in Italian life.

Within the "new world" many non-Italian's love these Flowers, and the taste of the Jordan " Confetti" Almonds. These also come Kosher as well for the Jewish celebrations. 

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