Name: How Custard Tarts (Pastel de Nata) Are Made in Portugal With A 100-Year-Old Recipe | Regional Eats
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Claudia Romeo: You'll find these custard tarts

Adverbs of degree

And while tons of bakeries around the country

make pastéis de nata, the original version is made

But thankfully for us, the recipe didn't stay locked

and six generations later, it's still there.

The pastéis you'll find all around Portugal

but at this bakery, they're called pastéis de Belém.

which make these an ideal snack for anytime of the day.

To preserve the ancient recipe it inherited

keeps its pastry and custard recipes secret.

Penélope: This is the secret part of the recipe

These are four people that we trust very much

Claudia: So, how many people in total know the recipe?

Claudia: From here, we don't know exactly what happened,

but we can see that the dough is pretty wet.

Claudia: And then this dough will then be turned

into little pasties. Penélope: Yes, yes.

Claudia: When she goes in there and cuts it,

when it's cooked, you see them separating.

Claudia: Still, I imagine there's still a lot of work

with the dough. You have to create your layers,

and alternate, and laminate with the butter.

It's just a testament of what is happening

the little pieces of dough are placed in individual molds.

Claudia: So, you just move it like this. Yeah?

Basically what you want to do is not have it too thick.

If you don't know what you are trying to get,

if you don't know how thick the dough is to start,

you can't just go in and, like ... [laughs]

But yeah, there's lots, lots, lots of butter.

and try to reveal another secret, the egg custard.

We don't know for sure, but during my research,

this custard is made with milk, not cream,

to make for a lighter and less sweet custard,

But we know that there are egg yolks inside, right?

Penélope: Yes, I can tell you that, yes.

Actually, not only the pastéis, but many sweets

that are made in Portugal have egg yolks,

because in the convents, the nuns used the egg whites

to iron their suits and left the egg yolk,

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