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Definition of the geographical area of production: Santa Maria Island, Azores.
Ingredients used: eggs, lard, butter, sugar, flour, salt, yeast, barley (they are barley) and go into the wood oven.
Product availability throughout the year: available all year round.
Product history: Made about three days before the Feast of the Di-vine, to be delivered the day before, hence their name, they are a sweet, also secular, with the right to "chavão" (it is a brand, in this case, to refer to the dough, with which the cakes of eve are marked. Usually with the symbols of the Holy Spirit, and of those who make the cakes. The cake is marked six times, from the center, blessed and distributed). It is a cake, also with some rennet and whey, but lighter, in the shape of a "biscuit", thick, with the diameter of a plate. It is a delicacy that, in addition to being laborious, due to the stages, is al-so slow to make, with the aggravating factor of being very expensive (to obtain a rennet dough, for a medium cake, you need about 4 liters of milk, plus the remaining ingredients.
Source: Federação Portuguesa das Confrarias Gastronómicas
Image source: Quiosques de Turismo
