Ready to fill canapés

Pidy, a family owned pastry manufacturer, has launched a range of ready to fill Flower of Peace commemorative canapés. Pidy has been creating a wide variety of ready to fill pastry for more than 63 years and its latest launch not only commemorates the First World War but will also support a war charity as well.

The brightly coloured flower shaped canapé range comes in neutral beetroot flavour canapé cup, which can be filled with a sweet or savoury filling. The Flower of Peace canapé has a distinctively bright red beetroot colour and is made with a light Pâté à Foncer dough and the cups will be available to the European foodservice market.
Robert Whittle general manager at Pidy UK explains: “We are extremely proud to be commemorating the First World War, supporting world peace and giving back to charity with our new canapé cups. We have trialled them with a number of clients and consumers already and we have had some great feedback.

“The canapés are extremely versatile; the lighter pastry and their neutral taste ensure that they can be used for a variety of occasions and functions. Having launched a number of canapé cups that have been made with the same lighter dough such as the Veggie cup, Fruity cup and Spicy cup, we believe that the Flower of Peace canapé cup will be very popular within the foodservice sector.”

The shape of the canapé is based on the well-known ‘Remembrance Poppy’, the first flower to grow in the churned-up earth of soldiers’ graves in West-Flanders. The use of the Poppy was inspired by the poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by the Canadian poet John McCrae. It eventually became the symbol of the ‘Great War’.