At the Convento de San Pablo, the highest point in the city, a sign reads “Se Venden Dulces Artesanos” (Sale of Sweets) adjacent to an intercom button. Here's what to say to get mantecados (shortbread cookies) and perrunillas (similar cookies that melt in your mouth), made by nuns' secret recipes, through a window.
Marco Mangut, a native of Cáceres, visited these convents as a child with his father. The nuns make muffins, tocinitos de cielo mantecados , and a few styles of sweets. He loves the perrunillas made with a secret recipe by the nuns at the Convento de San Pablo. The sandy but crunchy texture that melts quickly in the mouth is reminiscent of shortbread and emblematic of the Extremaduran region of Spain.through the medieval cities in Extremadura.
Mangut shed some light on the history of these local sweets. “This convent was built in the 15th century and housed the unmarried girls of noble families forced to become nuns. They becamenuns and made vows to live cloistered. There's always somebody in charge of buying the groceries to make their sweets and bringing them to the convent. When the nuns receive them there are two doors: one opens to the street, the other to the convent.
A few of these cookie-selling convents operate throughout Spain, and three sell their wares in Cáceres alongside restaurants recommended in the Michelin Guide, like two-Michelin-starred Atrio, the site of an elaborateand the Convento Jerónimas join the secret cookie window industry, but Mangut stays faithful to the Convento de San Pablo and their tightly guarded recipes.
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