Rosquillas De San Isidro appears as a signature dish in 1 Spain cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Rosquillas de San Isidro · Madrid
Rosquillas de San Isidro are Madrid's May ring biscuits, sweet and lemon-glazed (listas) or matte and aniseed (tontas), eaten during the San Isidro patron-saint festival each 15 May.
Rosquillas de San Isidro descend from the medieval Castilian rosquilla tradition, with the Madrid version becoming canonical in the 18th century. Four types exist: tontas (matte, aniseed), listas (lemon-glazed), de Santa Clara (white meringue) and francesas (sugar-dusted). The biscuits appear in Madrid bakeries from late April through mid-May, peaking on May 15, the feast of San Isidro Labrador (the city's patron saint). The Pradera de San Isidro picnic on May 15 still draws thousands of locals carrying boxes of rosquillas, tortilla, empanada and a bottle of Valdepenas. La Mallorquina on Puerta del Sol and Horno de San Onofre near Gran Via produce the city's reference rosquillas; boxes sell from 10 to 14 euros.
Where to eat in Madrid:
- La Mallorquina
- Horno de San Onofre
- Antigua Pasteleria del Pozo