Small Alghero sweets whose Catalan name means pocket eggs, built on egg yolk and almond and finished with a sugar glaze. Sold by the box in the old town pastry shops.

Ous de butxaca belong to the Catalan sweet repertoire that Alghero preserved after the Aragonese resettlement, part of a wider Iberian tradition of yolk-and-sugar confections that convent kitchens developed to use the yolks left over from clarifying wine. The name survives only in Alguerès, which is one reason the sweet has stayed local rather than spreading across Sardinia. Bon Bons on Via Einaudi still bakes them from family recipes recorded in Catalan, alongside menjar blanc and the other feast-day sweets of the old town.

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Bon Bons ★ 4.6

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Bon Bons keeps the Catalan sweets of Alghero alive, baking menjar blanc and ous de butxaca to recipes written down in Alguerès by the family.

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