Margheritine are a dry baked pastry product. The ingredients are: wheat flour, starch, icing sugar and butter, hard-boiled egg yolks, vanilla, grated lemon peel.
passed down from father to son, among the pastry chefs of Stresa and they jealously guarded and not
not disclosed.
Some historical information can be found in the research "A daisy for the Queen" carried out by the
carried out by the hotel-management school of Stresa.
The history of Margheritine began in the mid-1800s.
Pietro Antonio Bolongaro, a confectioner from Stresa, had been preparing these exquisite sweets for a long time and they were sent by the confectioner to the Ducal Villa to make the awakening of the future Queen even sweeter. The sweets began, so, their fortune and, in honor of the noblewoman,
they were called Margheritine.
