Frisia has been making life How are mallows made? sweeter since 1899 We’re proud of our history. We have been making candy that cheers people up for over 120 years. What are mallows made of? Mixing and cooking the ingredients That’s how it was back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when our products were The ingredients in The sugar and the syrup are kept in huge sold at the funfairs of Friesland in the Netherlands mallows are sugar, storage tanks next to the marshmallow and it’s still like that today. glucose (a sort of factory. These ingredients go through thick syrup), gelatin, water, pipes to the “kitchen”: a production hall full of air, colouring agents huge kettles. The sugar, syrup, gelatin and and flavourings. water are stirred together in these kettles. They The history of the mallow are heated up to make a cooked mixture. After A more difficult name for sugar is saccharose. mixing and heating, a machine removes the air Europe’s biggest mallows factory is in Harlingen, Friesland It’s quite simply the same sugar that people from the mixture (evaporating) to make it (the Netherlands). This factory has been there since 1899, put in their coffee or tea. This sugar is made in easier to measure the right quantity of the making it over 120 years old. When the factory was first the Netherlands from sugar beets that mixture. built, they made all sorts of candy, including lollies, acid farmers grow on their land. Gelatin is a drops and nougat. In those days, people thought eating protein. Proteins are found mainly in meat, Other machines then mallows when they were ill would make them better. eggs and beans. Frisia uses the gelatin protein beat the mixture to Pharmacists sold mallows that were made of plants and in their mallows because protein froths very put the air back in. roots to help deal with pain, for example. easily. This way, the mallows stay nice and This air consists of The factory in Harlingen began making mallows in 1966, fluffy. The colouring agents give the mallows lots of tiny air under the brand name Frisia. Today, the factory focuses lovely colours: pink and yellow, but green and bubbles. These exclusively on making marshmallows. No other candy is orange, too. bubbles make the produced there now. The other Frisia candies are made in You can spot Frisia mallows thanks to their marshmallow the factories in Nijkerk and Turnhout. wonderfully smooth creamy vanilla taste and deliciously light and smell. Mmmmmmm.... stretchable.
This is the basic marshmallow. Colouring agents and flavourings are added to this From extruding and cutting to basic mixture. storage
Pipes come from the kettles that squirt the warm marshmallow mixture onto large “marshmallow belts”. The technical word for The mallows are put in little bags this is extruding. During this process, it forms the mixture into a shape. For example, the To sell the mallows in the shape of a very long cable, if Cable mallows shop, they have to be are being made. The long string of packed in little bags, of Why Frisia? The name marshmallow is warm and sticky, but of course course. This is done fully simply comes from it mustn’t get stuck to the belt! To prevent this, automatically by FRIESLAND “Friesland”, which used flour is sprinkled onto the belts. packaging machines. It is to be called “Frisia”. The FLAG OF FRIESLAND The marshmallow is cooled, as well, so that it important to make sure Frisia logo still has a link becomes slightly dry on the outside. A cutting that each bag weighs the with the flag of Friesland NORTH SEA machine can now cut the marshmallow into same. So the mallows fall small pieces. But before the string of as they both bear the NETHERLANDS into weighing trays above heart-shaped leaf of marshmallow goes into the cutting machine, the packaging machines. A the white water lily. GERMANY another coat of flour is sprinkled onto the computer knows exactly mixture itself. Because the marshmallow must how much has to be BELGIUM not stick to the knife either! The knife cuts the weighed in these trays. You can buy bags of 25 marshmallow to the right size. The mallows g to 1,000 g! Two sorts of mallows are sold not by then go into very weight but by number. These are the Cable large rotating mallows and the Double mallows. When the washing machine bags have been filled, they are sealed by a drums. machine. This makes the flour What kinds of mallows are there? fall off the mallows again. After this, the In the past, all Frisia mallows go along a mallows were conveyor belt to diamond-shaped. They machines that dry Where can you buy Frisia mallows? were pink on one side them. The mallows and yellow on the other. are now ready! Frisia mallows are on sale in almost all major shops and supermarkets in the Netherlands. The boxes full of mallows are taken from the Now Frisia mallows come in all shapes and sizes. mallow factory to the shops in trucks. But did Examples include Party mallows, Double mallows and Packing in boxes you know that families and children in other Cable mallows. But did you know that Frisia has devised countries also mallows for almost every time of the year? When St The bags of mallows are not enjoy our Dutch Nicholas is on his way, for example, you can enjoy taken from the factory to the mallows? delicious St Nicholas mallows. Creepy Halloween shops loose. They are carried Frisia mallows are mallows are tasty, too. They come in the shape of ghosts in boxes. Each box contains also sold in and pumpkins. And there are Easter mallows as well: jolly twelve or more bags of Germany, Easter bunnies, flowers and chicks. And we make Orange mallows, for example. When a England and mallows especially for our King. A mix of box is full, a machine closes it Belgium. Dutch red-white-blue-orange mallows to make King’s Day a automatically and stacks it mallows are even spectacular celebration. Finally, Frisia also makes MEGA onto a large trolley. Forklift eaten in Hong Barbecue Marshmallows. A huge marshmallow to roast trucks take the full trolleys to a Kong and China! over the barbecue or dip in chocolate sauce in the warehouse. There the boxes summer. It lasts for aaages! are kept in very tall racks. The mallows now wait to be taken to the shops.
WWW.MY-FRISIA.COM See the production process on the back. Mallows are Frisia mallow production process made of:
Sugar Glucose Gelatin Water Air Colouring agents Flavourings sugar gelatin
water glucose
mixing
The ingredients are sent to the kitchen. Here the sugar, syrup, gelatin and water are stirred together and heated to form a cooked mixture. After it has been boiled, the mixture is evaporated and then beaten again. After this, colouring agents and flavourings are added to the heating up evaporating basic marshmallow mixture.
The marshmallow mixture is squirted onto large “marshmallow belts” (extruded) to be made into the right shape. Flour is sprinkled on to the belts to prevent the long string of marshmallow from sticking to the belt or the knife. The marshmallow is beating cooled so that it becomes colouring agents and flavourings slightly dry on the outside. A cutting machine cuts the marshmallow into small pieces. The mallows go into a drum to remove the flour. After this, they are dried again.
The mallows are put extruding flouring in little bags. cooling de-flouring
cutting drying The bags are packed in boxes.
The mallows head towards you!
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