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alfajor

English translation: cookies; biscuits

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Spanish term or phrase:alfajor
English translation:cookies; biscuits
Entered by: YamiL

17:43 Mar 10, 2004
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Cooking / Culinary
Spanish term or phrase: alfajor
Exquisitos postres y alfajores elaborados en forma artesanal-
YamiL
Argentina
Local time: 20:29
cookies; biscuits
Explanation:
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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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
Selected response from:

Marian Greenfield
Local time: 19:29
Grading comment
Thanks!!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +4alfajor
Rantes
4 +4alfajor (Christmas short pastry)
Sean Lyle
5 +2alfajor, sandwich cookie, chocolate-covered biscuit, chocolate candy, bonbon
Rafa Lombardino
5 -2candies / cakes
Jackie Bowman
3sweets especially around Christmas
Adela Van Gils
4 -2cookies; biscuits
Marian Greenfield


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -2
candies / cakes


Explanation:
specific nature varies from region to region


    Reference: http://www.comprasargentinas.com/alfajores.htm
Jackie Bowman
Local time: 19:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Rafa Lombardino: candy is too general and it's not big enough to be a cake, but only a sandwich cookie covered with chocolate
12 mins
neutral  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.
7 hrs
disagree  Scott Horne (X): ditto
1 day 23 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
alfajor


Explanation:
yo explicaria entre parentesis, (soft kind of cookie wiht caramel filling and coverd with chocolate or sugar icing)

Rantes
Local time: 18:29
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  luzba
2 mins
agree  Pia Pavese
1 hr
agree  Elena Sgarbo (X)
9 hrs
agree  Scott Horne (X)
1 day 23 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
cookies; biscuits


Explanation:
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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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


Marian Greenfield
Local time: 19:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 64
Grading comment
Thanks!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Sandy T: You are right in your explanation of what an 'alfajor' is like in Argentina. However, you would not call it buiscuit or cookie
7 hrs
disagree  Scott Horne (X): ditto
1 day 23 hrs
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
alfajor, sandwich cookie, chocolate-covered biscuit, chocolate candy, bonbon


Explanation:
"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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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...\"


    Reference: http://www.pnkmarketing.com/Image/choc/alfajores.jpg
    Reference: http://www.3wlab.com.ar/difoggia/faq.htm
Rafa Lombardino
United States
Local time: 16:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Scott Horne (X)
1 day 23 hrs
agree  Javiera: I prefer sandwich cookie... thanks anyway...
587 days
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
sweets especially around Christmas


Explanation:
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.

Adela Van Gils
Netherlands
Local time: 01:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ltemes
2 hrs
neutral  Elena Sgarbo (X): See my comment to Sean re: Christmas.... it may not apply to many countries :-)
9 hrs
disagree  Scott Horne (X): ditto
1 day 23 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
alfajor (Christmas short pastry)


Explanation:
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.

Sean Lyle
Local time: 01:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ltemes
16 mins
agree  Sandra OLIVER
52 mins
neutral  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 :-)
7 hrs
  -> Yes, I am referring to Spain, and that is precisely the reason for my first sentence!!
agree  neilmac: They are also typical in the Murcia-Orihuela Vega Baja area of Spain
1 day 13 hrs
agree  Scott Horne (X)
1 day 21 hrs
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