The Ensaimada Trail: Backing up for Review
All this discussion of ensaimadas (links to previous postings here and here) and I realize that I’ve never really explained what they are. Ensaimadas are a pastry associated chiefly with…
Read moreThe Ensaimada Trail: Pedro Ballester’s Ensaimada Recipe
Back to ensaimadas. I’m fainnly getting around to posting a translation of Pedro Ballester’s recipe for Minorcan ensaimadas. It was first published in 1923. It is therefore probably one of…
Read morePreserving Milk in Mexican History: Sweets versus Cheese
And addendum to my post on cheese in Mexican history. A classic way of preserving milk in Mexico (as in India) was to boil it down until the milk sugars…
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