#ensaimada

[huariqueje]

Breakfast with ensaimada , Breakfast with Mallorcan Pastry - Matias Quetglas , 1975.

Spanish , b. 1946 -

Egg tempera , 74 x 92 cm.

[foodaundtheworld]

Hora de la merienda!

[fullcravings]

Ensaimada

[kafesutra1]

Ensaimadas Mallorquinas / España

[la-marmotte]

[marcosvidalfont]

Paraiso 2017 collage serie

[useless-catalanfacts]

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.

[wurwolf]

I am weirdly excited for my cooking plans today. I am trying an experiment -- a cross between an ensaimada (a sort of Filipino sweet roll) with ube (sweet purple yam) filling and cinnamon rolls, sans cinnamon. My plan is to make the dough and then instead of the usual brown sugar cinnamon interior fill it with ube spread and sweetened coconut and bake it. Then do the sweet whipped butter/cheese topping that you find on ensaimadas. I’ve been thinking about it for a while but today I am actually going to do it. I will post pictures of the result.

And then tonight I’m making beef chili and cornbread for dinner, which I’m looking forward to. I also have to clean but I am less excited about that.