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Nicanores of Boñar (pastry)

Boñar, La Montaña de Riaño, León

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Nicanores of Boñar (pastry)

Food and drink · Boñar, La Montaña de Riaño, León

Extremely fine, crisp puff pastries dusted with sugar that are the town's signature sweet; they share the table with the tarta de truchas and the cravates, the traditional pastries of the Porma valley. They were created in 1880, when the pastry-maker Nicanor Rodríguez González opened a workshop in Boñar and began making these sweets of puff pastry, wheat flour, butter and egg, cut with a daisy-shaped mould. At first they were called hojaldras, but the fame they achieved meant that over time they came to be known as nicanores, in honour of their creator.

Photo: Joselu Blanco (CC BY 2.0)

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