Baking recipes from my villages in Spain
This week I decided to do some research and baking about the pastries and cakes that I have been following me since I was a kid. That ones, that you can close your eyes next to them and you are back in time and place.
Rolletes is an anise biscuit, that in Spanish means small rolls, given obviously by his shape.
A few years ago, I met Timoteo, he was the baker at my village, Puebla de Arenoso, at the bar and I ask him for the recipe of one of the most iconic pastry in the village, Rolletes.
He, with a big smile, give it to me, so I came back this time to London, with the recipe written on a piece of paper and a bottle of Cazalla ( Dry anise Liquor ) in my luggage .
This was 8 years ago, and cleaning during the quarantine , I found the bottle but I couldn’t find the recipe.
Then I contact his Daughter , Aurora, who happily gave me the recipe after point me that she was in the village , next to the lady of the rolls, her Mum.
So I didn’t waste time and this morning I cook a fresh batch, and when I open the oven I closed my eyes , and I was back there, in my village in one of the mornings at La calle la Portera.
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