My Mom was a specialist in pastry treats. And she baked always one of best sweetness pie i´d ever tasted in all my life. Brazil is a country colonizated by Portugueses, and Portuguese pastry was ever richness of egg yolk use. It´s simply to understand. The tradition of Conventual Sweets is spread all over the Portugal and it´s colonies around the world, including Brazil. It´s because on monasteries of catholic church, the nuns used the egg whites in high quantities to starch their clothes and costumes. Then egg yolks were left over in high proportions. The solution was to use that egg yolks remained to create a great varieties of sweet pastries, cakes, pies, using them!! In Portugal and Portuguese countries we call them, DOCES CONVENTUAIS ( sweeties from monasteries ) Then, the tradition of a pastry rich in egg yolk is common in Portugal and colonies such Brazil. Well, we have a nice coconut tart made with lots of sugar, egg yolks and shreded coconut we LOVE A LOT and we call here in Brazil QUINDIM. My Mom was a specialist in an oversized QUINDIM. We call it QUINDÃO. One of best sweet delicious treats we have here in BRAZIL. My Mom produced it in very small quantities and her QUINDÕES sold-out in just few minutes after they gone to the shelves!! A MUST!!!

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