Friday 22 March 2013

22.3.13 GB sponsor Holy Week Dessert Competition


The recent  I Concurso de Reposteria de Semana Santa, sponsored and organised by Gonzalez Byass, in collaboration with the great cake shop La Rosa de Oro and the local newspaper Diario de Jerez, has been won by Isabel Maria Rosendo with her Torrijas Rellenas and Rosco de Semana Santa.

Reposteria translates as pastry cooking, usually in desserts. Torrijas is a typical Holy Week dessert consisting of bread soaked in wine or milk with honey and spices, dipped in egg and pan fried in olive oil, in this case stuffed.  Roscos are a kind of doughnut made with flour, egg and anis or cinnamon, and are also typical in Andalucia at Holy Week.



Torrijas

Roscos


The desserts had to contain wine from Gonzalez Byass such as Nectar Cream or Oloroso Alfonso. GB were delighted that not only was the competition a great success, but many old traditional recipes had reappeared from possible oblivion. The winner received a wooden box containing two bottles of Palo Cortado Leonor, two bottles of Oloroso Solera 1847 and 4 tasting glasses, as well as a basket of Holy Week cakes.

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