ensaimada

See also: ensaïmada

English

Alternative forms

• ensaïmada

Etymology

From Catalan ensaïmada. Doublet of ensaymada.

Noun

ensaimada (countable and uncountable, plural ensaimadas or ensaimades)

1. A type of pastry originating from Mallorca made from flour, water, sugar, eggs, dough and reduced pork lard named saïm.

   Synonym: ensaymada (Philippines)

   • 1984 March 8, Peggy Speirs, “Doing the birdie on a long, long break”, in Evening Post, number 32,833, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 5:

     Hotel food is reasonably good, and rather British, except for breakfasts, when most hotels serve ensaimades, a puff pastry half way between a croissant and a Danish.

   • 1998, Maria-Antònia Oliver, translated by Kathleen McNerney, chapter 7, in Blue Roses for a Dead…Lady? A Critical Edition and Translation from Catalan of El Sol que fa l’ànec by Maria-Antònia Oliver, New Orleans, La.: University Press of the South, Inc., →ISBN, page 42:

     After I’d polished off two ensaimades, a plain one and a cream one, and another pastry for dessert, I said: "Aunt Antònia, please don't buy me any more of this stuff..."

   • 2012 March 3, “Food to live in the memory”, in The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:

     THEY’VE been making ensaimades, traditional Mallorcan pastries, for 450 years in the tiny backstreet bakery of Ca’ Miquel in Palma.

   • 2015, Raza Ali Hasan, “On Dali’s Persistence of Memory”, in Sorrows of the Warrior Class: Poems, Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Sheep Meadow Press, →ISBN, page 44:

     “Not Einsteinian physics but Camembert cheese melting on a thick piece of ensaimada under the sun,” raved a deranged Dali, “was the inspiration.”

Translations

Mallorcan pastry

• Catalan: ensaïmada (ca) f
• Spanish: ensaimada f

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan ensaïmada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ensaiˈmada/ [ẽn.sai̯ˈma.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: en‧sai‧ma‧da

Noun

ensaimada f (plural ensaimadas)

1. ensaimada (Mallorcan pastry)

Further reading

• “ensaimada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10