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The egg tart (traditional Chinese: 蛋撻; simplified Chinese: 蛋挞; Cantonese Yale: daahn tāat; pinyin: dàntǎ) is a kind of custard tart found in Chinese cuisine derived from the English custard tart and Portuguese pastel de nata. The dish consists of an outer pastry crust filled with egg custard.
The custard filling may be flavored with chocolate, green tea, or bird's nest, and the outer shell may be made with pastry. [2] [5] [3] In June 2014, the technique of egg tart production was formally included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory of Hong Kong. [6] Egg tart can mostly be found in Cha chaan tengs and bakery shops.
Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce ( crème anglaise ) to the thick pastry cream ( crème pâtissière ) used to ...
Pastel de nata (Portuguese: [pɐʃˈtɛl dɨ ˈnatɐ]; pl.: pastéis de nata) is a Portuguese egg custard tart pastry, optionally dusted with cinnamon. [1] Outside Portugal, they are particularly popular in other parts of Western Europe, Asia and former Portuguese colonies, such as Brazil, Mozambique, Macau, Goa and East Timor.
Pound cake is said to be of European origin dating back to the 1700s. The original recipe contains a pound each of flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. With such a heavy and dense cake, it could easily ...
Egg tart – Delicate pastry tart with a lightly sweet golden egg custard filling; [2] probably influenced by the Portuguese tart pastels de nata; Napoleon – Layers of puff pastry and creamy filling or jam; Swiss roll – Rolls made just like a Portuguese roll torta; the creamy layer may be sweetened cream, chocolate, pear, or lemon paste
Bird's Custard is the brand name for the original powdered, egg-free imitation custard powder, now owned by Premier Foods. Custard powder and instant custard powder are the generic product names for similar and competing products. The product is a powder, based on cornflour, which thickens to form a custard-like sauce when mixed with milk and ...
Alfred Bird's gravestone at Key Hill Cemetery, Birmingham. Alfred Bird died on 15 December 1878 in Kings Norton, Birmingham and is buried at Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham. . Famously his obituary in the journal of the Chemical Society (of which he was a fellow) discussed at length his skills and research but did not mention his other activity – the by then famous Bird's Custard and Bird's Jel