#ensaimada

[huariqueje]

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

Spanish , b. 1946 -

Egg tempera , 74 x 92 cm.

[antolingm69]

¡A la rica ensaimada! Sineu, Mallorca.

[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.