Sobao | |
Alternate Name: | Sobao pasiego |
Country: | Spain |
Region: | Valles Pasiegos |
Main Ingredient: | Sugar, butter, flour, eggs, salt, lemon zest, rum or anise liquor, dry yeast |
Sobao or sobao pasiego is a Spanish delicacy typical of the Valles Pasiegos and one of the signature delicacies of Cantabria.The sobao pasiego possesses Geographical indication since 2004.[1] [2]
In the earliest recipes, the ingredients were bread dough, white sugar and butter with pasiego with eggs, lemon zest and anise liquor or rum.The modern sobao was developed in 1896, when a cook named Eusebia Hernández Martín replaced the bread dough with flour.