Pastel de Belém. Ostia
Friday, April 29, 2011
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Belém cakes (in Portuguese pastéis de Belém) are one of the specialties most characteristic of Portuguese cuisine. Generically are called pastéis cream (pastry cream). They are cream cakes, about 8 inches in diameter, prepared according to a secret recipe that has not been revealed in nearly two hundred years and supposedly know only three people on the planet. Both the pasta and cream begin to be developed behind closed doors in the "secret office" (office do segredo), a process that lasts two days. The dough is flaky. The cream has a fundamental base of egg yolk, milk and sugar. They eat both hot and cold.
Believed to be created before the eighteenth century by the nuns of Lisbon's Jeronimos monastery, situated in the parish of Belem, a suburb of the Portuguese capital. Following the Portuguese liberal revolution of 1820, in 1834 the monastery was closed. convent Baker, suddenly unemployed, decides to sell the recipe to the Brazilian-born Portuguese businessman, Domingos Rafael Alves
In a first stage were made selling the cakes prepared in accordance with Recipe of the monastery, in a sugar cane situated few meters from the Jeronimos.
Both the original recipe called pastéis de Belém are registered. La Casa de Belém Pastéis daily produces about 10,000 pancakes.
Belém cakes represented Portugal in the initiative Coffee cultural Europe, developed in Europe Day 2006 during the Austrian presidency of the European Union. Spain was represented by the Tarta de Santiago
Belém cakes are very popular in China, arriving via Macao in the days when this city was a Portuguese colony. In Chinese, Belém cakes are called "dan ta" (蛋 挞) coming to mean something like egg pie.
In a first stage were made selling the cakes prepared in accordance with Recipe of the monastery, in a sugar cane situated few meters from the Jeronimos. In 1837 he opened a facility attached to the mill to become pastry Pastéis Casa de Belém.
Since then, this place has been continuously working both for sale and for consumption there of the cakes, which are associated with sugar and sprinkled cinnamon. The bakery is still owned by descendants of Alves.
Both the original recipe called pastéis de Belém are registered. La Casa de Belém Pastéis daily produces about 10,000 pancakes. Belém cakes represented Portugal in the initiative Coffee cultural Europe, developed in Europe Day 2006 during the Austrian presidency of the European Union. Spain was represented by the Tarta de Santiago
Belém cakes are very popular in China, arriving via Macao in the days when this city was a Portuguese colony. In Chinese, Belém cakes are called "dan ta" (蛋 挞) coming to mean something like egg pie. A curious fact is that companies like McDonalds included "dan ta" within their range of desserts and this popularity has made it begins to be possible to find Belém cakes in other Asian countries like Cambodia.
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