They are instantly recognisable by their shape, a small triangle with a hole through the centre, symbolising the creation and the Holy Trinity.
In days gone by, these little shortbread biscuits were threaded onto long sticks to carry them to market. They also decorated the branches of boxwood trees blessing Palm Sunday.
La Cornuelle is a short-bread biscuit decorated with aniseed stars or balls. Distinctive - in a triangular shape (some say to represent The Holy Trinity - The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit) with a hole through the middle, allowing it to slide easily onto branches during the festival. Traditionally, the biscuits are blessed on the branches of the boxwood tree, and enjoyed by the villagers after the Palm Sunday service! It is also written, that the Saint-Jacques de Compostelle pilgrims carried them around their necks to sustain them on their long journey. At the start of Spring, the cornuelle also comes to represent fertility. You can read more HEREIn Villebois Lavelette they use the biscuit designed brass markers to identify points of interest for tourists . I do believe you can get a map at the Tourist Information .
Love Shutters , I think we must all have so many photos of them .
This car has not moved for a long time!!
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