Tortas de aceite
Tortas de Aceite (German: Olive Oil Tortas) are round, very thin and crispy baked goods that have been enjoyed for centuries, especially in Spain .
The true origin of the Tortas de Aceite is still unknown today. On the one hand there are versions that mention an Arabic recipe as the origin, and on the other hand there is talk of a sweet pastry in southern Spain. In the novella Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán , the Torta de Aceite is mentioned as early as 1600. Even Miguel de Cervantes speaks in Don Quixote of "tortas".
The ingredients are wheat flour, virgin olive oil , sugar, salt, yeast, sesame seeds, anise and anise extract.
All data about the origins of olive oil tortas have one thing in common: they are called handmade "tortas" based on flour and sugar, which have developed over the centuries. The olive oil tortas are known worldwide today. There are now large factories in Spain in which the olive oil tortas are made more mechanically, but also small manufacturers who still add brown cane sugar by hand using the traditional manufacturing process.
The Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior; ICEX) first mentioned combinations of Tortas de Aceite with Manchego cheese in its report Spreading The World About Spanish Foods on April 24, 2013 .
Since June 6, 2013 the olive oil tortas "Tortas de Aceite de Castilleja de la Cuesta" are protected as a guaranteed traditional specialty (g. T. S., Spanish: Especialidad tradicional garantizada (ETG)). The main difference between these Tortas de Aceite is that they are made with invert sugar . When the original original Tortas de Aceite were made, no invert sugar (Spanish: Azucár invertida) was known.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mateo Alemán: Guzmán de Alfarache . Ed .: José María Micó. Cátedra, Madrid 1987, ISBN 978-84-376-0708-5 , pp. 486 (Spanish): "Dale mis encomiendas, aunque no lo conozco, y dile que me pesa mucho y parte con él de aquesa conserva, que para ti, bien mío, la tenía guardada. Manana es día de amasijo y te haré una torta de aceite con que sin vergüenza puedas convidar a tus camaradas. »
- ↑ Francisco Rico (ed.): Don Quixote de la Mancha . Instituto Cervantes / Crítica, Barcelona, p. 734 (Spanish, cervantes.es ): “Por eso digo —dijo el del Bosque — que nos dejemos de andar buscando aventuras; y pues tenemos hogazas, no busquemos tortas, y volvámonos a nuestras chozas, que allí nos hallará Dios, si El quiere. »
- ^ Rosa María Gonzalez Lamas: International Triumph for Tortas de Aceite from Spain. (No longer available online.) October 12, 2012, archived from the original on November 6, 2016 ; accessed on November 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Rodrigo García Fernández: Spreading The World About Spanish Foods. Retrieved November 5, 2016 (English, translation: Adrienne Smith).
- ↑ Especialidad Tradicional Garantizada Tortas de Aceite de Castilleja de la Cuesta . Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, accessed on November 5, 2016 (Spanish, description on the website of the responsible ministry).
