Re: Empanadas (was: RE: Re(2): Alan D. Corre's pages)

FFlores wrote:


> > Don't know if this has been answered yet, but empanadas are little meat
> > filled pastries which are popular in Mexico (IIRC).
>
> And in Argentina! Practically a national dish. The name sounds to
> me as if it comes from a verb *_empanar_, 'to put in(side) bread'
> but that can be just folk etymology.
In any event, they seem to have been popular in Spain, and the Sephardi
author of the _Shulkhan Arukh_ (a codification of Jewish law) mentions them.
When studied by Ashkenazi, the word tends to be pronounced /pnadS/.

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