{"id":3251,"date":"2026-10-06T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/crema-catalana\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:55:31","slug":"crema-catalana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/crema-catalana\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt crema catalana"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3251\" class=\"elementor elementor-3251 elementor-3249 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-89a3b7b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"89a3b7b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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carquinyolis from La S\u00e9nia, at Carrer de la Cera, 49.<\/p><div class=\"cl-dish\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/can-lluis-crema-catalana-cremada.jpg\" alt=\"Can Llu\u00eds burnt crema catalana with carquinyolis, in an earthenware dish\" width=\"779\" height=\"1169\"><\/figure><div><h2>How we make it at Can Llu\u00eds<\/h2><p>We infuse milk and cream with cinnamon stick and lemon peel, then thicken it with egg yolks only, sugar and a touch of starch over a very low heat. We serve it in an earthenware dish, with the sugar burnt to order so the crust cracks, and with artisan carquinyolis, crisp almond biscuits from La S\u00e9nia in the Terres de l\u2019Ebre.<\/p><p class=\"cl-dish-price\">\u20ac6.50<\/p><\/div><\/div><h2>A little history<\/h2><p>Nobody knows exactly where crema catalana began, but it goes back a long way: a Catalan cookbook from the fourteenth century already has milk cooked with eggs. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was a dessert for feast days in well-off homes, eaten with sponge fingers.<\/p><p>In time it reached every table and became the set dessert for Saint Joseph\u2019s Day, 19 March, which gave it its other name: crema de Sant Josep. The feast falls in the middle of Lent, when households had milk and eggs to spare, and it was the grandmothers who made it and burnt the top with a red-hot iron.<\/p><p>What makes it Catalan is in the detail: yolks only, scented with cinnamon and lemon rather than vanilla, under a crust of burnt sugar that has to be very thin. The pleasure is the contrast: cold underneath, hot and crisp on top. Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n said that, faced with what Catalans can do with milk, you have to take your hat off.<\/p><h2>Also on the menu<\/h2><p>Before dessert, try the <a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/salt-cod-fritters\/\">salt cod fritters<\/a> (\u20ac10.50) or the <a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/meatballs-with-cuttlefish-and-peas\/\">meatballs with cuttlefish and peas<\/a> (\u20ac16.50).<\/p><div class=\"cl-pc-cta\"><a class=\"cl-pc-main\" href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/reservations\/\">Book a table<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/menu\/\">See the menu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/our-dishes\/\">All our dishes<\/a><\/div><p class=\"cl-pc-note\">Further reading: <em>\u00c0pats<\/em>, by Alba Sunyer and Clara Ant\u00fanez (Parcir Edicions Selectes and Joviat, 2022); <em>Cuina catalana<\/em>, by Borja Sierra and \u00d2scar G\u00f3mez (Montagud Editores); and <em>La cocina de los mediterr\u00e1neos<\/em>, by Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n (Ediciones B, 2002).<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3248,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3251","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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