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- Alfajores: These
are delicious biscuits filled with mou and covered with icing sugar or chocolate
icing. These biscuits are now sold at any time of the year in any pastry shop
in Argentina as well as the famous dulce de leche.
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Christmas fruitcake
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is a special cake that should be allowed to mature for 2-3 months. Who has had
the chance to travel through Great Britain or America will have noticed them richly
decorated with mountains of royal icing, covered of marzipan or simply decorated
with coloured glacé cherries and pecan nuts on the top. |
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Gingerbread : These
American biscuits derives from the old Europe recipes, the batter is really similar
to the one used in many Italian cities to prepare "mostacciali" also said "mustazzoli"
or to the famous Norimberg spiced bread. It is easy to prepare them even for the
children that can enjoy themselves in cutting christmas forms or the well-known
shape of the "gingerbread man" deriving from the omonin story. |
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Phoenician Honey Cakes
(Melomacarona or Finikia) : These
small honey cakes offered to callers at a Greek home at Christmas and New Year.
The recipe for these cakes is said to have been brought to Greece by the Phoenicians.
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Pastelitos : Any
kind of dried fruit or combination of dried fruits can be used. |
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Glazed orange zest
: In USA it is also used grapefruit zest. |
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Fougasse : This
is a speciality from Provence usually done for Christmas. |
- Pain
d'épices : It is a very spicy and aromatic sweet bread that
if well stored can be kept for long time. |
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Ensaimada : This
is a very soft brioche form Mallorca but you can find it all over Spain. You can
make one big ensaimada or small ones. |
- Spiced Apple Pie
: This is one of the thousands of American apple pie recipes available in the
world. Usually prepared for the Thanksgiving is relatively easy to prepare and
can be served with ice-cream or whipped cream. |
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