Millionaire mendiants

Name: Millionaire mendiants
Yield: Makes 20-30
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: toasted hazelnuts, raisins, crystallized flowers such as violet and rose, crystallized orange peel, edible gold leaf; 200 g your favourite dark chocolate

Preparation info

Makes
20-30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Table in the Tarn

By Orlando Murrin

Published 2008

About

Mendiants are popular throughout southern France. At the Manoir they are practically papal - being adorned with sprinkles of crystallized flower petals, chunks of crystallized fruits and even scraps of gold leaf.

Ingredients

200 g your favourite dark chocolate

Europe
France
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Vegan
Chocolate

Method

The story behind mendiants is as complicated as anything you will find in The Da Vinci Code. Originally Les Mendiants was the name for a Christmas treat consisting of a dish of almonds, figs, hazelnuts and raisins - whose colours are those of the four Roman Catholic mendicant orders (Dominicans - white, Franciscans, - grey, Carmelites - brown, Augustinians - deep purple). Later th