Sponge cake

Bizcocho

The World known "sponge cake" is originated from the Iberian Peninsula. It was in its origin a Sephardi dessert made for Jewish Passover. In 1492, a royal edict brought to an end the era marked by Jewish presence on Spanish soil. An era that had lasted for a thousand years. After the expulsion, the Sephardi Jews were spread along the Mediterranean Sea taking with them, their culinary traditions. That is the reason why sponge cake named after the same fashion, which literally means "Bread of Spain" , in French: Pain d'Espagne, in Italian: Pan di Spagna, in Portuguese: Pão de Espanha, in Bulgarian: пандишпан, in Greek: Pantespani, in Turkish: Pandispanya and in Bosnian as patišpanja
By Tapas Together Edinburgh