Queijada de Vila Franca

Excelent dessert from the Azores to eat in a winter evening next to the fireplace, or in a summer morning with a fresh orange juice!

Ingredients:

- 260 g of flour

- 9 egg yollks

- 1 egg white

- 1,5 tbsp of salt-free butter

- salt

- 2 liters of milk

- white fresh cheese

- 260g of sugar

- powder sugar

- parchment paper

- small pins

1- Put the milk on a stove in the minimum heat and add the fresh cheese (it should be broken in pieces) and stir continuously, and turn off the heat. Cover the pan and let it curdle. Remove the curdle and dry it very well in a cloth until there's no liquid left. Mold the curdle until it's thin.

2- Add to the curdle: 6 egg yolks, 1 egg white, 1/2 tbsp of the butter, 250g of the sugar and 1 tbsp of the flour and mix everything. Put in a pan in low heat until it all starts to boil and then remove from the stove. Remove the liquid in a strainer and put in the refrigerator.

3- On the next day, put the rest of the flour, the egg yolks, the butter, the sugar and a little bit of ssalt in a recipient with a bit of hot water and mix everything to mold the dough. Wrap it in a napkin. Then stretch it with a kitchen roll and a bit of flour.

4- Then, with a cup, cut the dough in circles and put them on oven board. Then, put a ball of the previously made stuffing on each of these circles. Then pull the sides of the dough up to make a closed box. Wrap parchment paper around the sides of each cake and lock it with a small pin.

5- Put them in the oven in medium heat and take them when you think they're done. Then, remove the paper and sprinkle the "queijadas" with powder sugar.