Pastéis de Belém

How to bake cookies that recipe is only known by 3 people in the world?

Pastéis de Belém because we are talking about them, are the most popular Portuguese cookies, which date back to the eighteenth century.Their recipe created monks from the Monastery of Jeronimos in Belem a district of Lisbon. At that time the monasteries produce large quantities of eggs, because the proteins were needed to production port wine or starching habits.

To avoid waste the yolks, they were used to make sweet desserts and biscuits - this is economic approach! The original recipe was purchased by the clever Brazilian from unemployed baker. To the present day we use this provision.

If you want to be the fourth person who knows the recipe… Let’s go!

 Pastéis de Belém

Ingredients:

250 grams of sugar

35 grams of flour

Pinch of salt

500 milliliters of milk

1 vanilla pod

5 eggs

500 grams of puff pastry

Juice of 1 lemon

6 tiny molds

Stages of preparation

1. Toss the flour and salt to bowl then mix

2. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

3. Boil milk with a dissected vanilla pod

4. Gradually pour the milk into the bowl with the flour and sugar. Mix. Add eggs. Mix. Add lemon juice. Mix.

5. Roll out the puff pastry to a thickness of about 3 millimeters. Cut out circles about 2 inches larger than the diameter of the molds. Apply the puff pastry into the molds. Prick with a fork. Appy stuffing.

6. Bake at 210 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

7. Serve still warm sprinkled with powdered sugar or cinnamon.