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"Bread from Heaven"

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By Spice Adventurer, 04/23/2016 - 16:27

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What on earth are these colorful things?

"Hun-Manna" is a name of handmade candies from Hungary. Manna means " Bread from heaven", the edible substances in Hebrew Bible = "a white flake" a state like the frost on the lawn. According to the bible, the Israelites gather the flakes from the ground every morning and consumed while they were traveling for 40 years in the desert after leaving Egypt, which they believed that God provided.

Nowadays, a product called "Manna" is extracted from the sap of Manna Ash Fraxinus ornus in the northern Sicily, produced by Sicilian farmers.

As the matter of fact, Manna is used in parfumerie, confectionery as well as a  replacement of crystal white sugar or sweeteners, especially for diabetic patients because it contains lower value of glucose.

The appearance of Manna is like bdellium (a semi-transparent oleo-gum resin extracted from trees or plants growing in desert and Ethiopia). It is grounded,  pounded into cakes, then baked and tastes like a cake baked with oil or a wafer mixed with honey.

The "Hun-Manna" has colorful appearance and contains mostly fruits,nuts, beans and seeds.

Fruits: Apples, oranges, figs, blue berries, raspberries and coconuts. Most of them contain mix of nuts, seeds or beans and fruits.

Poppy Orange: Mix of candied orange slices and poppy seeds.

Comparing with a bread with poppy seeds on earth :

Back to the old time, bread on earth was baked with Neolithic dome oven:

The sweetness comes from fruits. Colorings are from natural products like berries, beetroots, blueberries and so on.

Raspberry Fig Coconut:

Sometimes, it comes from flowering plants like lavender which is usually used for herbal baths.

Lavender Slice: coconuts, lavender, berries and grains mix.

or spices from flowering plants like saffron or cocoa beans. Saffron powder looks more like red orange than yellow curry powder:

However, when it is cooked with rice, so called " Saffron Rice",  it turns to be yellow (lemon), the color of curry is like ochre (natural earth pigment).

Saffron Orange with nuts and Choco Almond Pistachio Fig with linseeds:

As the "Hun-Manna" is not made from crystal sugar, milk, flour and eggs, it is an alternative sweets for nuts &fruits lovers and is suitable for people who have allergie. However, these colorful alternative candies are not for people who are allergic to nuts!!!.

Somehow it is too beautiful to consume them at once or at all and it should not be called " Bread" as it is very sweet like "Candy from Heaven". However, many things in heaven are forbidden to consume. Luckily, we are on earth. This bread can be eaten as many as you can pay. Once you wish to visit heaven, you just have to follow the sign from this painting:

St. John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci pointed the way to heaven. Hope you would find it. Good Luck!