Catalonia 9: PIJAMA 🌞

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PIJAMA

Ingredients (for 8 people)

8 egg and cinnamon flans
400 g (10.5oz) vanilla ice cream
8 yellow pulp peaches
1 pineapple
2 L (2qts)mineral water
400 g (10.5oz)sugar
500 g (17.5oz)cream
16 preserved cherries

Preparation

1. Heat a pot of water with sugar.

2. Peel peaches and halve, removing the stone without cutting the pulp.

3. When water starts to boil, add peaches and cook slowly until tender.
Once ready, remove and reserve in the same syrup.

4. Peel pineapple and cut into 2 cm slices.

5. Whip cream adding a pinch of sugar to sweeten, but not too much.

6. Arrange a flan on the plate, the two halves of peach, the slice of
pineapple, a tablespoon of cream, a couple of preserved cherries on
top, and an ice cream scoop.

Comments

This is a typical town festival dish that has been part of the menus of
popular fare restaurants in Catalonia, such as ours, for a long time. It’s a
wholesome and complete dessert for hungrier palates. Some people even
add a carquinyoli (dry almond biscuit) to the cream.

In the old days and even today, especially in small towns, it was common
to bring a gift, often food, when visiting a sick person. I suppose this
costume comes from the time of the post-war, when there wasn’t much
food to go around. Very often, these meals consisted of preserved products
such as pineapple or peaches in syrup, sugar or biscuits.

From "Catalan Cuisine" by Colman Andrews

YUM! Enjoy everyone!