Influência portuguesa no preparo do quindim

Abstract

The present study aims to show the portuguese influences in the historical and gastronomic framework of the quindim. Through literature analysis published in Brazil and in Portugal it was found that the discoveries that led Portugal to search for new ways, defined the arrival of sugar and spice route from the East to Brazil. It was with the release of sugar that traditional Portuguese sweets, which had the basic ingredients sugar, egg yolks and almonds, achieved notoriety and was influential in building eating habits of Brazilian desserts. And with the addition of new ingredients such as coconut at the portuguese sweet resulted in the creation of a typical Brazilian sweet, the quindim.