Braga Patience Biscuits
Also known as: Braga Patience Biscuits
Tiny round, dry and crisp sugar-and-egg biscuits.
- Origin
- Braga
- Region
- Braga
- Season
- Year-round
Paciências de Braga are miniature round biscuits served among the city's traditional dry sweets for tea. A simple sugar, egg and flour batter is dropped into tiny discs and baked until dry, light and delicately toasted.
They are eaten one by one or by the handful. Their firm texture softens in the mouth, with a clean flavour of pale caramel, egg and sometimes lemon or orange fragrance.
- sugar
- eggs
- wheat flour
- lemon or orange zest
Dry, light and sweet, with egg, pale caramel and citrus notes.
They may use white or brown sugar and lemon, orange or vanilla fragrance.
At traditional Braga confectioners, sold by weight or in boxes of tea biscuits.
Tea, coffee or milk.
Braga City Council includes Paciências in its official local sweets list and among the dry biscuits sold as edible souvenirs. The municipal youth guide describes them as miniature round biscuits.
Sources: cm-braga.pt · cm-braga.pt
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