Good Husband and Good Wife

The "Good Husbands" and "Good Wives" are small individual pastries born from a fine hand-rolled pastry, cut and moulded into golden shells in the oven. Inside, they hold a thick filling of egg yolks, almond and sugar, joined — in the case of the "Good Husband" — by the unexpected addition of cooked, sieved chickpea, which lends body and a velvety smoothness, always brightened by a pronounced lemon aroma.

The "Good Wife" is his perfect match: the same pastry and the same egg base, but with the chickpea replaced by gila squash jam and perfumed with orange zest — lighter and fresher on the palate. They are served as a pair, side by side, and it is in that affectionate duality — husband and wife — that the charm of this Ferreira do Zêzere sweet resides.

Small, golden and unassuming in appearance, they conceal a dense, glossy interior. Eaten by hand, at the end of a meal or with coffee, each one takes more than two hours of artisanal work before it reaches the counter.