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Mar 10, 2004 17:43
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Spanish term
alfajor
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Cooking / Culinary
Exquisitos postres y alfajores elaborados en forma artesanal-
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Marian Greenfield
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cookies; biscuits
alfajor, at least in Argentina, is a kind of cross between a cookie and a candy and often filled with dulce de leche. can be covered with powdered sugar or chocolate.
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Alfajor Rogel (with dulce de leche)
Alfajor Rogel (with dulce de leche). \"Alfajor Rogel is a classic Argentinean dish
using dulce de leche. ... Cook separated on a buttered cookie pan in a hot oven. ...
www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/ RECIPES/Desserts/alfajor.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
Cake: Alfajor Rogel
posted by ramon 02-03-103 3:35 AM Alfajor Rogel 6 eggs 1 1/2 teaspoons butter 1 1/2
cups flour 1 tblspoon ... Cook separated on a buttered cookie pan in a hot oven ...
www.cyber-kitchen.com/ubbs/archive/ DESSERTS/Cake_Alfajor_Rogel.html - 2k - Cached - Similar pages
Di Foggia - FAQ
An alfajor is a sandwich cookie filled with distinctive flavors. The
butter cookie base is either vanilla or chocolate flavored. ...
www.3wlab.com.ar/difoggia/faq.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
Cheesecake Central!
... Tips. FANTASTIC FORTUNE COOKIE KIT - NIB. Morsa Almond Pistacio Biscotti
Wrapped 30/cs. LUSCIOUS TREAT ALFAJOR CABSHA Argentina. SHORTBREAD ...
www.cheesecakecentral.com/categories1/biscotti.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
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Note added at 5 mins (2004-03-10 17:48:42 GMT)
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Alfajor Rogel (with dulce de leche)
Alfajor Rogel (with dulce de leche). \"Alfajor Rogel is a classic Argentinean dish
using dulce de leche. ... Cook separated on a buttered cookie pan in a hot oven. ...
www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/ RECIPES/Desserts/alfajor.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
Cake: Alfajor Rogel
posted by ramon 02-03-103 3:35 AM Alfajor Rogel 6 eggs 1 1/2 teaspoons butter 1 1/2
cups flour 1 tblspoon ... Cook separated on a buttered cookie pan in a hot oven ...
www.cyber-kitchen.com/ubbs/archive/ DESSERTS/Cake_Alfajor_Rogel.html - 2k - Cached - Similar pages
Di Foggia - FAQ
An alfajor is a sandwich cookie filled with distinctive flavors. The
butter cookie base is either vanilla or chocolate flavored. ...
www.3wlab.com.ar/difoggia/faq.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
Cheesecake Central!
... Tips. FANTASTIC FORTUNE COOKIE KIT - NIB. Morsa Almond Pistacio Biscotti
Wrapped 30/cs. LUSCIOUS TREAT ALFAJOR CABSHA Argentina. SHORTBREAD ...
www.cheesecakecentral.com/categories1/biscotti.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
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candies / cakes
specific nature varies from region to region
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Rafa Lombardino
: candy is too general and it's not big enough to be a cake, but only a sandwich cookie covered with chocolate
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Sandy T
: En el noreste de USA no se conoce el alfajor como algo 'americano' y se lo llama candy. En lugares como New Jersey se puede encontrar, pero obviamente es de otro pais como por ejemplo de Argentina.
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Scott Horne (X)
: ditto
1 day 23 hrs
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4 mins
alfajor
yo explicaria entre parentesis, (soft kind of cookie wiht caramel filling and coverd with chocolate or sugar icing)
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luzba
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Pia Pavese
1 hr
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Elena Sgarbo (X)
9 hrs
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Scott Horne (X)
1 day 23 hrs
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15 mins
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alfajor, sandwich cookie, chocolate-covered biscuit, chocolate candy, bonbon
"Alfajor" is a kind of sandwich cookie, truffle or bonbon, which may be filled with a great variety of creamy goods such as chocolate mousse, may them be made of chocolate, "dulce de leche" or jam. Some may have a biscuit or waffle layer to make it crunchy. Its may core may be hard as the one of a bonbon or soft as the one of a honey cake. These layers are covered with a hot chocolate sauce, which will harden and give it a bonbon look. Some say it was created in Latin America (in Argentina or Uruguay) and other say it has an Arabic origin.
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Where it\'s written: \"Its may core may be hard as...\", read: \"Its core may be hard as...\"
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Note added at 17 mins (2004-03-10 18:01:33 GMT)
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Where it\'s written: \"Its may core may be hard as...\", read: \"Its core may be hard as...\"
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Scott Horne (X)
1 day 23 hrs
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Javiera
: I prefer sandwich cookie... thanks anyway...
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sweets especially around Christmas
alfajor:
m. Pasta hecha con almendras, nueces, pan tostado, especias y miel: rosquillas de alfajor. || Dulce hecho con esta pasta: el alfajor es un dulce típico navideño. También se conoce como alajú.
© Espasa Calpe, S.A.
m. Pasta hecha con almendras, nueces, pan tostado, especias y miel: rosquillas de alfajor. || Dulce hecho con esta pasta: el alfajor es un dulce típico navideño. También se conoce como alajú.
© Espasa Calpe, S.A.
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Ltemes
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Elena Sgarbo (X)
: See my comment to Sean re: Christmas.... it may not apply to many countries :-)
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Scott Horne (X)
: ditto
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2 hrs
alfajor (Christmas short pastry)
I think you should leave the word in the original and insert an explanation, depending on what your final text is meant to be used for, and with very careful attention to where the thing is from!
Just to even the balance across the Atlantic - it's obvious that what you call alfajor in Argentina has little to do with what we call by the same name in the "piel de toro".
Here they are often associated with polvorones, another Christmas crumbly biscuity cakey sort of thing that is impossible to eat without leaving the evidence on your whiskers.
The alfajor is a small round soft shortbread or mille-feuille (rolled very thin and layered), about 2-5 cm thick and perhaps 5 across, very dry, very short pastry with ground almonds, with a dusting of icing sugar. Like polvorones they explode in your mouth, and I think the origin of the word is the Arabic f-j-r root for "to explode", though I would love to have corroboration or otherwise (I have lost my dictionary of Arabic words in Spanish).
The alajú variant is from another Arabic word, for pressed dates or a Syrian sweet cake.
Just to even the balance across the Atlantic - it's obvious that what you call alfajor in Argentina has little to do with what we call by the same name in the "piel de toro".
Here they are often associated with polvorones, another Christmas crumbly biscuity cakey sort of thing that is impossible to eat without leaving the evidence on your whiskers.
The alfajor is a small round soft shortbread or mille-feuille (rolled very thin and layered), about 2-5 cm thick and perhaps 5 across, very dry, very short pastry with ground almonds, with a dusting of icing sugar. Like polvorones they explode in your mouth, and I think the origin of the word is the Arabic f-j-r root for "to explode", though I would love to have corroboration or otherwise (I have lost my dictionary of Arabic words in Spanish).
The alajú variant is from another Arabic word, for pressed dates or a Syrian sweet cake.
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Ltemes
16 mins
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Sandra OLIVER
52 mins
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Elena Sgarbo (X)
: Hi Sean. I agree with leaving "alfajor". In Argentina, where alfajores have been around for ages, they are *not* a Christmas treat. Alfajores are eaten year-round -and are rarely eaten in Christmas, as there are other -more typical- Christmas sweets :-)
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Yes, I am referring to Spain, and that is precisely the reason for my first sentence!!
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neilmac
: They are also typical in the Murcia-Orihuela Vega Baja area of Spain
1 day 13 hrs
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Scott Horne (X)
1 day 21 hrs
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