ensaimada

plural ensaimadas · plural ensaimades · alternative ensaïmada

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

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

   2012 March 3, “Food to live in the memory”, in The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1

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   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.

   1984 March 8, Peggy Speirs, “Doing the birdie on a long, long break”, in Evening Post, number 32,833, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 5

   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..."

   1998, Maria-Antònia Oliver, translated by Kathleen McNerney, chapter 7, in Blue Roses for a Dead…Lady? A Critical Edition and Translation from Catalan of El Sol que fa l’ànec by Maria-Antònia Oliver, New Orleans, La.: University Press of the South, Inc., →ISBN, page 42

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

   2015, Raza Ali Hasan, “On Dali’s Persistence of Memory”, in Sorrows of the Warrior Class: Poems, Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Sheep Meadow Press, →ISBN, page 44

   Synonyms: ensaymada