Ensaimada de Mallorca Recipe

Ingredients:

• 250 g of bread flour
• Between 60 and 80 g of water
• 1 medium sized egg
• 80 g of sugar
• 200 g of butter or lard
• 4 g of dried yeast
• Olive oil
• Icing sugar

How to Make It:

1. Take the butter out of the fridge so it is not cold and too solid.
2. Mix the flour, egg, sugar, water and 25 g of butter for the dough (do not put all the water at once, add all of it only if you see that the dough is dry). The dough will be a little sticky at first. Let it rest for 5 minutes.
3. Knead at intervals: 1 minute of kneading (fold and roll on the table) and 10 minutes of rest. Repeat this 3 or 4 times, until the dough is smooth. After resting, you can gently stretch it between your fingers until a translucent membrane is achieved.
4. In the last round of kneading, add the yeast by rubbing it into the dough. Before, add a few drops of water to the dried yeast until it becomes a dough. Then knead and wait 30 minutes.
5. Oil a surface (about 140 x 100 cm), so that the dough does not stick. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin until it is very thin, a rectangle of about 100 x 30 cm.
6. Spread the butter throughout the dough. Once it is covered with butter, slowly roll it out until the dough is translucent, like a membrane. It should come out something of about 130-140 x 90-100 cm.
7. Roll out the dough on the longest side, until you have a cylinder more than a meter long and a couple of centimeters thick. Let it rest for 25 minutes.
8. Gently stretch the dough to make it longer, and place it in a spiral shape on a sheet of baking paper, making sure to leave room for it to grow.
9. Let it rise for about 12-14 hours in the off oven. If it is cold you can put a pan with warm water at the base to ferment it well; cold will slow down the fermentation.
10. It should triple or quadruple in volume. If it still needs to grow, leave it longer. Keep the dough from getting cold.
11. Heat the oven to 180° C and bake for 18 – 20 minutes. Heat up and down. Put a metal pan with water in the oven while baking.
12. Once cold, sprinkle it with icing sugar.

In the 17th century we find the first written references about the ensaimada of Mallorca. At that time, although the main purpose of wheat flour was to make bread, there is evidence that this typical pastry product was made for festivals and festivities.

From the 18th century onwards, the consumption of Mallorcan ensaimadas became popular among the middle and upper classes, and it became a common pastry for snacks.

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