#pasteis de nata

[fullcravings]

Pastéis de Nata (Portuguese Custard Tarts)

[cpahlow]

[darling-turtledove]

I made pasteis de nata last night :D

I made them for the school market fundraiser and we sold almost all of them :DDD

In total we made somewhere around £100 just in my class (not just my stuff, the whole classes efforts of course)

and one of the other classes made like over £400

[atotaltaitaitale]

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How many of those Pastéis de Nata did we eat… that wouldn’t have been nice to count.

Plus we needed to sample the different recipes to make a fair assessment.

Pastéis de nata were created before the 18th century by Catholic monks at the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos. At the time, convents and monasteries used large quantities of egg whites for starching clothes such as friars and nuns’ religious habits. It was quite common for monasteries and convents to use the leftover egg yolks to make cakes and pastries, resulting in the proliferation of sweet pastry recipes throughout the country.

In the aftermath of the Liberal Revolution of 1820, following the dissolution of religious orders and in the face of the impending closure of many convents and monasteries, the monks started selling pastéis de nata at a nearby sugar refinery to bring in revenue. In 1834, the monastery was closed and the recipe sold to the sugar refinery, whose owners in 1837 opened the Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém. The descendants own the business to this day. Since the opening of Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém, the original recipe of the pastel de nata is kept in a secret room. The Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém sells over 20,000 pastéis de nata a day.

In 2009 The Guardian listed pastéis de Belém as one of the 50 "best things to eat" in the world.  In 2011, following the result of a public vote, the pastry was announced as one of Portugal's Seven Wonders of Gastronomy, further cementing it as one of the country's most popular national dishes.

[rabbitcruiser]

Mercado da Ribeira was inaugurated on January 1, 1882.

[rosesandalfazemas]

PortArg canon (?

[three-red-horns]

Pastel de Nata

Some people avoid triggers, some eat them! #3RH

[chefsloan]

Pastel de Nata and Espresso while overlooking Sintra, Portugal (02/21/2023). This was my much needed jet fuel, as I was hiking up the mountain towards Palacio de Pena. Amazing day.