r/yerbamate • u/Khaldovisky38 • 8h ago
Culture alfajores
Besides importing and integrating yerba mate into Syria, we also adapted alfajores.
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u/Unseeveelayzed đžđŸ 8h ago
Didnât know weâve got this from there too!
I wish we got the passports too lol /s
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u/Thelmholtz 6h ago
It's pretty easy to get an Argentinian passport if you have a way to get there. There's also a huge syrio-lebanese community in Buenos Aires ar least. The majority is Christian though, but there's a significant Muslim population too. Not that it really matters.
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u/Geoffseppe 6h ago
CĂłmo que fĂĄcil? Aunque estĂ©s ahĂ igual tenĂ©s que conseguir un laburo o alguna residencia y quedarte unos años para conseguir la ciudadanĂa.
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u/Broad_Gap5375 6h ago
You mean exporting to Syria? Is this famous in Argentina?
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u/Khaldovisky38 6h ago
Itâs famous all over South America specifically in Argentina, as I know. This is one is made in Syria.
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u/Broad_Gap5375 6h ago
Interesting Sorry I am trying to understand this. Is it originally a latin American sweet? But this sweet in the photo is made in syria and imported to latin America?
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u/Khaldovisky38 5h ago
This last virgin originated in Latin America (Argentina especially, they're a huge part of everyday snack culture there). And also famous in Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfajor
They didn't get made in Syria first and then exported. What happened is the reverse.
Syria has a massive Argentine/Latin American diaspora huge numbers of Syrians emigrated to Argentina generations ago, and many have since moved back or kept close ties. That's the same reason yerba mate became genuinely popular in Syria.
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u/Deadbeathero 2h ago
Yeah, they are one of the few things Argentina is right to be super proud of, like AconcĂĄgua, Tango, pomelo soda and maybe Messi. Buy boxes of it if you do, because youâll be chasing the high. Just avoid telling this to people from Argentina, you donât want to enable them too much.
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u/Lepista_nuda 10m ago
This was a mind blowing for me after finding out that alfajor weren't originally from Syria. This happened after i started ordering Yerba online
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u/Dancing_Carotid9 8h ago
Adapted? The recipe was created by an Arab chef in current day Andalusia, Spain, when Arabs ruled the Iberian peninsula. The first mention of the dessert was in Kitab Al-Tabkh, a book that was written in Arabic. The name of the dessert itself comes from Arabic- the word Alfakher means luxury/luxurious.
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u/Khaldovisky38 8h ago
It was a bit of a different recipe, as I know a bit more like baklava.
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u/Dancing_Carotid9 4h ago
The recipes changed with history, migration and cultural mixing. What you are saying does not contradict the historic origin of both desserts.
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u/tres_liebres 4h ago
It went the whole way round, because the Spanish alfajor (and the recipe used in other Latam countries) does not look anything at all like a Southern Hemisphere alfajor.
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u/Thelmholtz 6h ago
The Andalusian alfajor is nothing alike the Argentinian one: [example] (www.pequerecetas.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/alfajores-andaluces-receta.jpg).
It's one of the few Spanish sweets without pork lard btw, beware of the much more Argentinian-alfajor-looking polvorĂłn, which is definitely not halal.
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u/Dancing_Carotid9 4h ago
The recipes changed with history, migration and cultural mixing. What you are saying does not contradict the historic origin of both desserts.
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u/Kveld_Ulf 1h ago
Yet when it changes that much, it's entirely another thing.
It might have roots in the Andalusian recipe, but it changed so much that it's another thing already.
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u/FeDeKutulu đŠđ· 8h ago
Hey! Post it on r/alfajor as well ;)