Catalan🇪🇸 biscuit with strawberry cream.
Sponge cake is a light cake made with egg whites, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly in Spain.
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, located in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula, between the Mediterranean coast and the Pyrenees. It is part of the historical and cultural region of the Principality of Catalonia. The official name is the Autonomous Community of Catalonia.
Catalan cuisine.
Typical daily diet: in the morning - a light breakfast, milk or coffee; in the afternoon - lunch, vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, a moderate amount of wine; in the evening - dinner, denser than breakfast, but lighter than lunch.
Catalan or Catalan cream (Spanish: Crema catalana), also known as St. Joseph's cream, is a dessert, a traditional dish of Catalan cuisine. It is similar to French creme brulee, but is prepared not with cream, but with milk.
The main components are milk, egg (usually only the yolk), sugar. Sometimes spices, cinnamon, vanilla, zest are also added. As a rule, after cooking, the cold cream is covered with sugar and subjected to high temperature, so that the top layer of sugar turns into a crisp. Some recipes differ from the classic and involve the addition of starch or flour.
It has its second name because it is a traditional dish on the day of Joseph the Betrothed, celebrated on March 19.
Joseph the Betrothed (Joseph the Carpenter), (Heb. יוֹסֵף, Yosef) — according to the New Testament (Matt. 1:18 et seq.), the betrothed husband of the Most Holy Theotokos.