Pineapple pastries are sold all year but are especially popular at festivals including Chinese New Year, the Hindu Diwali and Muslim Hari Raya. You will find them in Malaysia, where pineapples were introduced from South America by the Portuguese traders, in Singapore which broke away from Malaya to form two countries, modern Malaysia and Singapore, plus Indonesia, which shares a language with Malaysia, Taiwan, and other places around the world.
The pastry is corn starch enriched with butter. The filling can be a jam of fresh pineapple boiled up with sugar and added flavourings such as cinnamon and cloves. The shapes can be flat open top tarts, tarts with a lattice of pastry, small bite size rolls with open ends, or spheres.
Pineapple tart picture from wikipedia article
The name which sounds like fung lee also means prosperity and good luck. Pineapples tarts are delicious. Sweet. Fruit preserved in pastry. Tasty. Filling. Fattening.
However, they look bite size. But one bite is a lot of calories.
You can most often find them in the form of a small pastry cup.
Or a ball covered with pastry with the sweet filling. The top of the ball is a shiny colour from a brush of egg white or yolk or sugar glaze.
My friends on Facebook have been sharing pictures of their first efforts or latest efforts to make pineapple tarts.
I am on a diet. Maybe I should stick to admiring the pineapple decorations
Photo of Chinese New Year paper pineapple decoration in Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_tart
About the Author
Angela Lansbury teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Member of many toastmasters speaker training clubs and speaking contest judge.
Angela Lansbury, the author of 20 books including Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations, has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore.
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