Sopes Mallorquines

Ingredients

Water, oil, onion, pepper, tomatoes, bread and other types of vegetables

History

Mallorcan soups or dry soup is a food from Mallorca cooked with vegetable broth and thin slices of dry brown bread. In a dish that can be eaten with a

fork, because almost no liquid: the broth should be absorbed by the bread slices.

They usually come along with the olives or pickled samphire.Mallorcan soups are one of the variants

of scalded soup broth, a typical food of other Mediterranean areas such as Catalunya or Italia.

It was food for poor people, that can't buy meat and they use the leftovers

Food

What is gastronomy?

Gastronomy is who produce the food and the transformation of the food in the kitchen.

The food is diferent in the north than in the south.

Gastronomy in Mallorca

In Mallorca make spicy food compared to the “peninsula”. And make food for poor people. Typical products of Mallorca are: iol (olives), wine (vine) and bread (wheat).

Gastronomy in Mallorca

The Mallorca's gastronomy optimizes resources (eaten all).

Seasonal cooking: some foods are eaten only at certain seasons.

The gastronomy is linked to the history.

Some people aported foods to the Mallorca's gastronomy.

Foods of Romans

The food was similar but they introduce the olives, the vine and the figs.

Foods of arabs

They aported some impovements in the olives and in the extraction of oil. They introduce some sweer foods: eggplant and artichoke, and could be introduce “ensaimada” too.

Jews gastronomy

They can't eat pig.

Are recipes for passover: lamb (it's sacred), they do “empanadas” but whitout filling and they do “crespells” that represent the David's star.

Catalan's aportation

They introduce products that don't are making in Mallorca. One example is “sofrito”.

Appearance of american productsThe olives are very important in

mediterranian culture.

Mallorca's oil is elavating.

The bread was food for each day because was sacred.

They don't put yeast in breas because was symbolic.

The “dulce mallorquin” have a lot of almonds

American products