Loriga Crackling Biscuits
Also known as: Loriga Crackling Biscuits
Pale crisp wheat biscuits blistered and folded by the wood-fired oven.
- Origin
- Loriga · Serra da Estrela
- Place
- Loriga · Serra da Estrela
- Region
- The Centre
- Category
- Cakes & Sweet Breads
- Season
- Year-round
- Evidence
- Limited documentation
Peles de Leitão from Loriga are broad, pale, irregular wheat biscuits with smooth surfaces marked by blisters, folds and cracks. Wood-fired baking dries the dough until very crisp and browns only some edges.
Their name describes the wrinkled, crackling-like appearance; the sweet contains no meat or suckling-pig products.
- wheat flour
- sugar
- other ingredients in the maker's recipe
Gentle, mildly sweet and very crisp, with restrained wood-oven toastiness.
Size, blistering and colour vary naturally with each artisan batch.
At Loriga bakeries and Serra da Estrela regional-product shops.
Coffee, tea or milk.
Loriga's cereal tradition and ovens sustained local bread and biscuit production. Peles de Leitão, also called Loriga-style biscuits, were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Portuguese Sweets in the Biscuits and Dry Cakes category and continue to be made in the town.
Limited documentation
The identity is documented, but its origin, composition or availability has limited sourcing.
- loriga.de/industrias.htm (opens in a new tab)
- marketingmadeinser.wixsite.com/madeinserradaestrela/product-page/biscoitos-regionais (opens in a new tab)
- gazetarural.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/7-Maravilhas-Doces-de-Portugal-Lista-de-Nomeados.pdf (opens in a new tab)
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