The Ensaimada Trail
For a couple of years, I’ve been interested in the ensaimada (the en-larded), a sweet bread associated with Mallorca and Minorca in Spain that also crops up in the Philippines.…
Read moreThe Ensaimada Trail: Ensaimadas and Lardy Cake
In a thread on Dan Lepard’s great site on baking, Adam Balic raises possible connections between lardy cake and ensaimadas (en-larded things), in this case a type of sweet bread…
Read moreAgua Fresca 2: Tamarindo
Well, on to this week’s agua fresca. It’s another of the great basics of the Mexican kitchen, agua de tamarindo. Here’s a pitcher, a warm brown color, lightly sweet, addictively…
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