Fijuelas are Sephardi Jewish fried pastries made from a thin, elastic dough of flour, eggs, and oil, stretched into long sheets and wound around a thin dowel or stick as they fry, pulling the dough into loose, irregular coils and ribbons that puff and crisp in the hot oil. They are removed from the dowel […]

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Travados are Sephardi Jewish pastries made from a tender, oil-based dough shaped into half-moons and filled with a mixture of ground walnuts or almonds — sometimes both — combined with sugar, cinnamon, and occasionally raisins or currants for a faint chewiness against the ground nuts. They are baked until golden and then dipped while still […]

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