#ensaïmada

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In a town in Mallorca (Balearic Islands), when the festivities of Sant Roc (Saint Roch) end, they make them a bit longer with what they call Sant Roquet (Little Saint Roch).

Since 28 years ago, the Sant Roquet tradition includes parading a giant ensaïmada (a delicious Mallorcan sweet pastry) on their shoulders like you would usually carry a saint's statue during a religious holiday's procession. The ensaïmada weights about 50 kg and can feed about 1,000 people. When they've taken the ensaïmada to the centre of the town, they all eat it.

Video from Sus Mallorca.

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Ensaïmada is a traditional sweet pastry from Mallorca (Balearic Islands).

It is made with strong flour, water, sugar, eggs, mother dough and a kind of reduced pork lard named saïm. The handmade character of the product makes it difficult to give an exact formula, so scales have been established defining the proportion of each ingredient, giving rise to an excellent quality traditional product.

It can either have no filling, be filled with cream, chocolate, or cabell d’àngel, or be covered with apricot. During Carnival, a special kind of bittersweet ensaïmada is eaten which has sobrassada and pumpkin.

[tinatamale]

#Mallorca <heavy sigh> how I miss you! Imagine taking a Cafe du Monde beignet, supersizing it, split it half, toast it & fill it with ham, egg & cheese. Not even a block away from our #oldsanjuan hotel. It was the first & last thing we ate while staying here. @eatgordaeat said the one is here is a fave, I agree. I even took a gratuitous window pic of an entire tray of them. It's a cousin of the #Ensaïmada, a coiled #pastry from the #Spanish Island of #Majorca. I close my eyes, imagine taking a bite into the soft pillowy egg bread, slightly crisp on the outside, powdered sugar tickling my nose...this sandwich & mofongo will be in my lasting #fooddreams from my time in #puertorico. #viejosanjuan #eatallthethings #ttprnyc19 #latepost #scrollforpics #puertoricorestaurants #puertoricanfood #heritagetravel #soymestiza #adventuresoftinatamale (at La Mallorca) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvP7QvjhY6a/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ofjt0wd5xr2p

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Ensaïmada, traditional pastry from Mallorca.

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4:00 a.m. el millor àpat en un casament menjat mai; #ensaïmada + #sobrassada MIL GRACIS! @ericsandias @menuda83 (at Artá, Islas Baleares, Spain)

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Ensaïmada | Gourmet Traveller