Where it comes from
Almería city
Few sweets have so novelistic a biography, and here it is literal. The deditos de Jesús are small finger-shaped pieces of almond, sugar and egg, counted among the province's desserts; their origin is popularly attributed to the Las Puras convent, but the name was born in a novel.
The story, in order: the name was invented by Fernando Quiñones in "La canción del pirata" (1983); a 1986 competition recovered — or reinvented — the recipe, the work of Antonio Verdejo, published in "Vivir para comer en Almería" (1991); the convent attribution arrived in 1996, and it is doubtful. A sweet that was a word first and a dough later.
Today it lives more on the page than on the counter: no confitería sells it regularly. Whoever wants to taste it will have to knead it: the almond, sugar and egg paste, shaped into small fingers, baked gently until dry but not toasted.
What it is made with
- Almond
- Sugar
- Egg
Underlined ingredients link to Local produce.
How it is made at home
- Grind the almonds finely.
- Mix them with the sugar and egg into a paste.
- Shape the paste into small fingers.
- Bake at low heat until dry but not browned.