Ensaimada

Quick meaning: Ensaimada is a noun meaning A type of pastry originating from Mallorca made from flour, water, sugar, eggs, dough and reduced pork lard named saïm.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.”

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..."

Word Forms

• ensaimadas
• ensaimades

Synonyms for ensaimada

Depending on context, synonyms include ensaymada.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sobrasada, malasada, sobrassada, paime, samoun, lokma.

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