Pastissets from Tortosa

Posted by Carme Pla on Jul 27, 2011 in In the Kitchen, Recipes | 3 comments

Via Magna (2011): Pastissets Tortosa

A few days ago, Isabel Castro added a photo of Via Magna’s Flickr in a blog post in  De la literatura a les cuines. Today we present the recipe so that you can prepare it as man do in Tortosa.

The blog post is titled  La fiesta (Party) and it’s an excerpt from the book by Alicia Giménez (2011): Donde nadie te encuentre (Where no one finds you), Editorial Destino, 176-178. Nadal Prize winning novel of 2011 that tells the story of a Spanish journalist and a French psychiatrist who start their particular road movie for three months to the Ebro and Maestrazgo lands in search of traces and the presence of a guerrilla or bandit nicknamed La Pastora. The novel intersperses chapters describing the progress of the duo, by Tortosa, La Senia, Morella and other towns and villages in the area, with his life story told by Pastora.

In the excerpt of the post, the protagonists were involved in a party of the people of the area where they discover the delicious pastissets. Here is the recipe by the cooking school Via Magna:

Ingredients:

(100 units)

• 2 kg. flour
• ¼ l. water
• ¼ l. mistela
• ¼ l. liquor
• ½ l. olive oil
• ½ l. sunflower oil
• c/s cinnamon
• scrape lemon
• 750 grams of pumpkin jam

Method:

1. Get all liquids into a bowl and mix. Then add the flour and mix with hands.
2. When no longer sticks to your hands put it on a table and knead until getting a soft texture and thoroughly mixed.
3. Stretch 30 grams of dough and make a ball. Keep on making balls this way until finishing all the dough.
4. Put parchment paper under and over a ball on a flat surface and smooth it.
5. Fill it with pumpkin jam and close making a cord.
6. Finally put in the oven at 210 º C for 20 minutes.