Mandorlini del Ponte – in Ferrara dialect "mandurlin dal pont" – are tasty biscuits made with almonds, egg whites, sugar and flour, which bake in the oven and take the shape of irregular meringue domes, golden hazelnut in colour, studded with crunchy almonds.
According to tradition, they were proposed for the first time on the occasion of the visit of Pope Pius IX in 1857; according to another version, they were the idea of an ice-cream shop assistant who, at the beginning of the 1900s, thought of using the egg white left over from the production of ice cream to make these sweets.
