Meaning of ensaïmada | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of pastry originating from Mallorca made from flour, water, sugar, eggs, dough and reduced pork lard named saïm.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“I tell you, it’s not the same / So many things have changed / I’ve seen sweets by the fist-full / Scattered all over the streets / And bakers hawking ensaïmades / For only six centimes each . . .”

“Next I would eat some ensaïmadas, small spiraled Majorcan pastries that are very popular in Barcelona.”

“Mallorcan ensaïmades, dusted with icing. The light pastry spirals dusted with icing sugar that flake perfectly.”

“Place the ensaïmadas on a couple of baking trays and cover them with a damp tea towel.”

“It was a day filled with echocardiograms and delicious samples of ensaïmada.”

“Google tip: ask Google what the oldest pastry shop is in Mallorca and it’ll lead you to Ca’n Joan De s’Aigo. Their ensaïmades are lighter than air.”

“We share a trio of street tacos and a box of classic ensaïmadas.”

“Hotel food is reasonably good, and rather British, except for breakfasts, when most hotels serve ensaimades, a puff pastry half way between a croissant and a Danish.”

“After I’d polished off two ensaimades, a plain one and a cream one, and another pastry for dessert, I said: "Aunt Antònia, please don't buy me any more of this stuff..."”

“THEY’VE been making ensaimades, traditional Mallorcan pastries, for 450 years in the tiny backstreet bakery of Ca’ Miquel in Palma.”

““Not Einsteinian physics but Camembert cheese melting on a thick piece of ensaimada under the sun,” raved a deranged Dali, “was the inspiration.””

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