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The Art and Culture of Portugal’s Pastry Industry: A History Influenced by Wine!

Started by Ryan Opaz · 9 months ago

Throughout my time living in this deliciously diverse food and wine country, Iâve come to realize that the Portuguese have developed themselves as artisans in specific food and wine crafts. Port may be the most famous, but what is surprising to most people who have never been here is Por ... Continue reading »

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José Eduardo
9 months ago

Ok! That's an excellent article you got here. It's lunch time but I would really go for some Pastéis de Nata... nham nham...

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Dylan
9 months ago

Oh man, meat filled pastries are the best. My grandparents are Ukrainian, but they moved to Brazil and my Dad grew up there for 13 years before coming to America. I would always look forwarding to visiting my grandma because she always had a meat pastry cooking; my favorite were her beef pastels.

Thanks for invoking the memories once more.

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Linds
9 months ago

This post made me incredibly hungry. Time for lunch, I suppose.

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troy
9 months ago

napoleoes? I always see those referred to as mil feuilles (thousand leaves), but lots of things have multiple names in Portugal, including grapes. also worth noting that the convents and monastaries produced a lot of wine; also using the egg white fining process.

i'm hungry now too.

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Andrzej Daszkiewicz
9 months ago

Mmmm, wonderful Portugese pastries, pretty dangerous at the same time, but who cares :-) One correction though, egg whites are used not for filtering, but for fining wines.

Greetings!

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Ryan Opaz
9 months ago

Andrzej -- Good point, Fining is correct, though I guess it could be viewed as filtering without the filter! :)

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Andrzej Daszkiewicz
9 months ago

Ryan, yes and no. I do not want to be too technical, but filtering removes solids, while fining removes "solids-to-be", which are colloidal proteins, "kind of" dissolved in wine, that can make wine looking cloudy in the future. After fining the wine has to be either filtered, or, at least, decanted.

Greetings!

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Ryan Opaz
9 months ago

Like I said you are correct, I'm just trying to make clear what is happening to the less geeky readers. Thanks for the exact definition. That said, maybe a better way to say it for all to understand, "Making it clear and pretty!" :)

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