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Cooking our Shuttles of the Val d'Eygues with orange blossom

Cooking our Shuttles of the Val d'Eygues with orange blossom

All you need to know about shuttles

In Provence, if we talk about Navette, don’t just see it as a means of transport because it could be biscuits! Because it’s a fact … in Provence if there is an emblematic sweet specialty is the Shuttle!

Gourmet flagship of the Provençal gastronomy, it is associated most of the time with Marseille because it is there that the recipe was born in 1781. A recipe based on wheat flour, sugar, egg, butter and orange blossom water that seduces lovers of traditional cookies from generation to generation.

What is the origin of the Navette biscuit?

That’s the question a million! There are two legends that have always been told in Provence. The first is that its history is linked to a wooden statue of the Virgin that would have washed up on the banks of the Old Port in Marseille at the end of the 13th century. Thus providing protection, it would be celebrated with every candlemas, February 2, with delicious Shuttles blessed by the archbishop of the city, near the abbey of Saint Victor.

The second, on the other hand, tells that the Shuttle would hold its shape of tray to represent the tray that brought the Saintes Maries on the coast of Provence 2000 years ago.

Delicious Shuttles of Provence

It is not only in Marseille that we make! At Biscuiterie de Provence, we have our own recipe for Navettes à la fleur d'oranger: les Navettes du Val d'Eygues! Starting from the same original ingredients, we chose to use good extra fine churn butter that gives them a slightly sandy texture. This unique texture, and less crumbly, brings a lot of delicacy to the biscuit and pleases both small and large gourmands… So, want to taste it?

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Fall for the traditional Provençal biscuit by excellence : the Organic orange blossom Navettes ! The Navettes from the Biscuiterie de Provence combine a delicate fragrance and a sandy texture for moments of pure pleasure... Exclusively organically grown ingredients have been selected to enhance this traditional recipe.