A polvorón (Arabic: ghurayba^[1]; Philippine languages: pulburon) is a type of Andalusian shortbread of Levantine origin^[1] popular in Spain and Latin America and other ex-spanish colonies such as the Philippines during Christmas. It is made of flour, sugar, milk, and nuts. They are normally produced from September to January but are now often available year round. There are about 70 factories in Andalusia that are part of a syndicate that produce polvorones and mantecados. ^[2]

Contents 1 Related desserts 1.1 Mantecado 1.2 Pulburon 2 References

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[edit] Mantecado

Mantecado is a Spanish shortbread, very similar to polvorón. The name mantecado comes from the manteca de cerdo iberico (fat of Iberian pig) with which they are made.

[edit] Pulburon

In the Philippines, a number of local variants on the traditional polvoron recipe have been made. These include polvoron with casuy (cashew), polvoron with pinipig (beaten young green rice), and even strawberry polvoron and "cookies and cream" polvoron.

Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on Polvorones

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