Polkagris Swedish Candy Cane Mint Candy
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Nothing is as good as a freshly baked Swedish Polkagris (Candy Cane)!
A genuine Gränna Polkagris is always red-white striped.
Franssons Polkagristillverkning started in 1967 and is one of the oldest polkagris bakeries in Gränna. Over the years, we’ve won two World Championship polka rice baking prizes and a Guinness World Records record for the world’s largest polkagris.
Ingredients: sugar, glycose syrup, flavouring (peppermint oil), carmine (E120). May contain traces of nuts, milk and wheat.
On January 10, 1859, the widow Amalia Eriksson received permission from the magistrate to “operate as a means of livelihood with her own hands in the bakery business of coarse and fine pastries and manufacture so-called polkagrisar”.
At this time, there were no pastry shops or candy stores, but it was not uncommon for single women to make a living by selling cakes and caramels that they had made themselves. Most often, the women went from door to door and sold their pastries, but Amalia opened a permanent sales outlet from the beginning. It was not long before she devoted herself entirely to manufacturing Gränna polkagrisar.
The name polkagris was originally used for a fairly common red-and-white caramel with peppermint flavor, but over time it has become associated with the striped bar from Gränna. The name probably originates from the Danish polka, which became extremely popular when it came to Sweden from Germany in the 1830s.
Until the early 1920s, Amalia was the only one to manufacture Gränna candy canes. As the number of car tourists increased, demand increased and more factories opened. Her daughter Ida continued the production after Amalia's death, but closed the business in 1942.
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