Pastel de Nata

  • English: Cream Pastry
  • Plural: Pasteis de Nata
  • Tarts from Fabrica de Pasteis de Belem: Pastel de Belem
  • As Noted In: 1001 Foods You Must Taste Before You Die, B E S Publishing

Pastel de nata is a traditional Portuguese egg-custard tart with a flaky pastry shell and a creamy, lightly caramelized filling. The pastry traces its origins to the monks of the Jeronimos Monastery in Belem, Lisbon, who used surplus egg yolks — left after the whites were taken for starching clothes and other household tasks — to create sweet custard pastries. When the monastery closed in 1834, the recipe was sold to a nearby sugar refinery, whose owners opened the Fabrica de Pasteis de Belem. The bakery still produces thousands of tarts each day and guards the original formula in a locked room. - AsNotedIn





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Y/M/D Person Association Description Place Locale Event
1675/00/00 Before the 18th century, the monks of the Jeronimos Monastery in Belem fashioned sweet cream pastries from their abundance of egg yolks, for the whites are spent in the starching of linens and clarifying wines. Jeronimos Monastery Lisbon
1834/00/00 After the Jeronimos Monastery closes, the Monk's cherished recipe for their sweet pastry is sold to a nearby sugar refinery, which soon open the Fabrica de Pasteis de Belem. Pasteis de Belem, Lisbon Lisbon
1837/00/00 The Fabrica de Pasteis de Belem opens, selling the famed sweet pastry once made within the Jernimos Monastery. The shop continues to prepare the original pasteis de nata recipe in strict secrecy. Pasteis de Belem, Lisbon Lisbon

Food Attribute Bakery Goods
Food Attribute Baking
Food Kind Pastry
Food Taste Sweet
Food Type Tart

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Particulars for :
Food type Custard Tart
Food Attribute Dulcamin
Product Kind Food
Food Conformation Viand
Food Form Victual




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