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Zoom on these taste tours! “La Maison du Biscuit” is in the spotlight today!

We went to meet our customers and partners. Focus on these taste tours. Today it is “La Maison du Biscuit” that is in the spotlight!

It would be the second most visited site in the Manche department, just behind Mont Saint-Michel. With 500 visitors per year, and 000 tonnes of biscuits sold, the cookie house enough to impress. At the head of this cupcake empire, a family… The Burnouf Family!

At home, we have been in the pastry-biscuit factory from father to son since…1903! If Paul, the great-grandfather was a baker, grandfather Maxime was a pastry chef. Maxime, Marc and now Kévin will follow, all… biscuit makers!
But one by one, they had to prove themselves! Sent on apprenticeship at the age of 14, they then returned to work in the family biscuit factory once they acquired the trade. At the time, it was in the small so-called “Cotentin” biscuit factory that all the recipes were made. But in the 1980s, Marc and his wife Carole, who did not wish to follow the large distribution-oriented development of this biscuit factory, decided to return to tradition.

The creation of the Maison du Biscuit

In 1990, they created “La Maison du Biscuit”. Thanks to the carefully preserved recipe books, a whole range of new specialties is born. The sale of its products will then only be done in direct circuit, first of all on the markets, then in the shop opened in Sortosville-en-Beaumont. Today, 25 people work there.

And this shop is worth a look! Installed in a village where Marc has completely recreated a street from his childhood village. You might think you've gone back in time... The biscuit factory is therefore perfectly showcased in this old school environment. 
You can visit it, of course, buy some cakes, or even indulge yourself with a cold or hot drink in the tea room ...
In short, there is something for all ages and for all tastes.

Recipes with tastes of yesteryear ...

It smells of butter, sugar, almonds and caramel. The recipes, unchanged, of course include eggs that come from the farms next door and come from hens raised in the open air. Everything is done therefore, with the know-how and traditions of yesteryear, and that's what we love!
And if the hand of man is irreplaceable, it can however agree to a little help... which is called Hubert Cloix ! The machine is mainly used for cooking eggs – for preparing sponge cakes.

Once again, we are proud and happy to contribute to the influence of French know-how and of our regions. If Made in France is essential for us in the development of our machines, we are also very attached to it when it comes to our customers and partners ...

All of this deserves a little trip to Normandy! We do not guarantee that you will find good weather there ... But cows, chickens and wonderful cookies, YES!