L’Épicurien Violet Flower Confit
- Regular price
- $15.00 USD
A French flower confit with a distinctive violet fragrance and delicate sweetness. Use it as a small finishing accent on panna cotta, fresh cheese or buttery pastry, where the floral flavor has room to stand out.
Violet is the most French of flavors, and this confit captures it gently. A small spoonful on panna cotta or a triple-cream cheese is the detail guests remember.
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A French flower confit with a distinctive violet fragrance and delicate sweetness. Use it as a small finishing accent on panna cotta, fresh cheese or buttery pastry, where the floral flavor has room to stand out.
About L’Épicurien
L’Épicurien has cooked preserves in open cauldrons in Le Bosc, near Montpellier, since the late 1980s, a family house run by the founder’s nephews. The flower confits are its signature: clear, lightly set jellies of cane sugar carrying the scent of a single flower. Violet is the most generous of them, with 1.5% petals, and the flavor is the one the French know from the candied violets of Toulouse.
How to enjoy
- Spoon over panna cotta, yogurt or vanilla ice cream
- Pair sparingly with soft cheese or buttery pastry
- Use as an accent in tea, cocktails or cake fillings
Details
- Origin: Le Bosc, France
- Net weight: 125 g
- Refrigerate after opening
Ingredients
Cane Sugar, Water, Violet Flowers (1.5%), Fruit Pectin, Calcium Citrate, Citric Acid, Natural Aroma.
Questions
What does violet taste like? Sweet, powdery and faintly green, the flavor of the old French candies. It is the most distinctive of the three flower confits.
The prettiest use? A spoonful in the bottom of a glass of Champagne, or over a white panna cotta.
Is it a jam? No fruit; a flower jelly, translucent and lightly set.
Pairs with
Jasmine confit and rose petals confit for the trio; the alcohol-free Bellini for the glass. Everything we carry from L’Épicurien, and our guide to what confit means.
Lello’s Point of View
Why we chose it. Violet is the most unapologetically French of the flower confits—the flavor of Toulouse candies translated into a translucent jelly with petals suspended inside.
What it makes better. Champagne, panna cotta, vanilla ice cream, soft cheese and buttery pastry gain a floral note and a beautiful visual detail with one spoonful.
How we would use it. Put a little in the bottom of a Champagne glass for drama, or spoon it over an entirely white panna cotta so the color and petals remain visible.
Who will love it. Francophiles, romantics, adventurous dessert makers and hosts who want one ingredient that immediately starts a conversation.
Why it earns its place. With 1.5% violet flowers—the most generous petal content in this flower-confit trio—the jar offers both a distinctive old-French flavor and striking presentation for $15.
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L’Épicurien
France, since 1982. L’Épicurien’s story began in the back room of a fine-food shop in Saint-Mandé, just outside Paris. When Bernard Le Gulvout bought the shop in 1982, the previous owners were already making preserves there and customers came from a distance for them. By the end of...
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