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' three-milk cake '; Spanish: pastel de tres leches, torta de tres leches or bizcocho de tres leches), dulce de tres leches, [1] also known as pan tres leches (lit. ' three-milk bread ') or simply tres leches, is a sponge cake originating in North, Central and South America soaked in three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, condensed milk, and ...
Pasteles de yuca [3] is one of many recipes in Puerto Rico that are popular around the island and in Latin America. The masa is made with cassava, other root vegetables, plantains, and squash. The recipe calls for cassava to replace the green bananas of the traditional pasteles de masa. Cassava is grated and squeezed through a cheesecloth ...
Mexican cook and author Josefina Velázquez de León wrote more than 140 cookbooks in her lifetime. [1] This bibliography, which may not be complete, is based on Velázquez de León's works in the Mexican Cookbook Collection at The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections [2] and works listed in WorldCat. [3]
Pastel de choclo ("corn pie" or "corn cake") is a South American dish made from sweetcorn or choclo. It is similar to the pastel de elote found in Mexican cuisine and to the English corn pudding . The filling usually contains ground beef , chicken , raisins , black olives , onions , or slices of hard boiled egg . [ 1 ]
Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry–type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings. [1] Traditional fillings include cream cheese quesitos, guava (pastelito de guayaba) and cheese, pineapple, and coconut. The sweet fillings are made with sweetened fruit pulps.
Pastel de nata (Portuguese: [pɐʃˈtɛl dɨ ˈnatɐ]; pl.: pastéis de nata) is a Portuguese egg custard tart pastry, optionally dusted with cinnamon. [1] Outside Portugal , they are particularly popular in other parts of Western Europe , Asia and former Portuguese colonies , such as Brazil , Mozambique , Macau , Goa and East Timor .
The Pastry War (Spanish: Guerra de los pasteles; French: Guerre des Pâtisseries), also known as the first French intervention in Mexico or the first Franco-Mexican war (1838–1839), began in November 1838 with the naval blockade of some Mexican ports and the capture of the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in the port of Veracruz by French forces sent by King Louis Philippe I.
The pastel is classified in Brazilian cuisine as a salgado (savoury snack). It is traditionally sold on the streets, in open-air marketplaces, or in fast-food shops known as pastelarias . It is popularly said to have originated when Chinese immigrants adapted their traditional spring rolls to the Brazilian taste using local ingredients. [ 1 ]