Graciosa Milk Tartlets
Azorean thin-crust tartlets filled with milk, yolk and cinnamon custard.
- Origin
- Graciosa Island · Azores
- Region
- Graciosa Island
- Season
- Year-round
Covilhetes de Leite da Graciosa are small fluted tartlets made with very thin short pastry and a pale filling of milk, sugar, yolks and cinnamon. They bake in greased bun tins until the custard is set and lightly golden.
Milk and sugar are slowly thickened over low heat. Once cool, yolks, cinnamon and a little flour dissolved in cold milk are added. The flour, lard, butter and salt pastry rests before being rolled and moulded.
- milk
- sugar
- egg yolks
- wheat flour
- cinnamon
- lard
- butter
- salt
Milky, sweet and gently spiced with cinnamon, with soft custard in a thin crisp shell.
Fluting, pastry thickness and degree of caramelisation vary between cooks and makers.
At pastry shops, celebrations and family tables across Graciosa Island.
Espresso, Azorean tea or Graciosa fortified wine.
DGADR defines the traditional production area as Graciosa Island and records the recipe through the Portuguese Federation of Gastronomic Confraternities. The name covilhete refers to the small individual mould in which the sweet is baked.
Sources: tradicional.dgadr.gov.pt
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