A Jésuite is a triangular, flaky
pastry
Pastry is baked food made with a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as '' bakers' confectionery''. The word "pastries" sugges ...
filled with
frangipane
Frangipane ( , ) is a sweet almond-flavored custard used in a variety of ways including cakes and such pastries as the Bakewell tart, conversation tart, Jésuite and pithivier. A French spelling from a 1674 cookbook is ''franchipane'' with t ...
cream and topped with sliced almonds and powdered sugar. The pastry originated in France and the name refers to the triangular shape of a
Jesuit's hat.
A similarly-named Uruguayan dish is the
jesuita, a baked ham and cheese sandwich with a puff pastry crust commonly eaten in parts of South America and considered a classic of
Argentinian cuisine, where it is known as a fosforito.
A similarly-named sweet pastry known in Portugal and Spain, the ''jesuíta'', consists of puff pastry filled with custard.
In Germany, Jesuitermützen are a custard-filled pastry traditionally cut into triangles.
In Argentina, jesuita is a very popular dish in many provinces. Rectangular in shape, it's made from puff pastry stuffed with ham and cheese, and covered with a sweet crust.
Dictionnaire de la ''Real Academia Espanola''
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See also
* List of pastries
This is a list of pastries, which are small buns made using a stiff dough enriched with fat. Some dishes, such as pies, are made of a pastry casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients.
There are fi ...
* List of almond dishes
This is a list of almond foods and dishes, which use almond as a primary ingredient. The almond is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia. "Almond" is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree. Within ...
References
French pastries
Almond desserts
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